Unsaid Things

  Not Everything Needs to Be Explained Sometimes, you get tired of explaining yourself. Explaining why you made a certain choice. Why something bothered you. Why you reacted the way you did. Why you decided to walk away from something that other people thought you should have stayed in. And after a while, you start to wonder why you feel the need to make everyone understand you. The truth is, people see things differently. They interpret situations through their own experiences, their own expectations, and their own understanding of the world. You can explain something a hundred times and still be misunderstood. You can have good intentions and still disappoint someone. You can make a decision that feels right for you and still have someone question it. That doesn’t always mean you did something wrong. Sometimes, you simply see things differently. And that’s okay. Not every decision needs a long explanation. Not every boundary needs to be justified. Not every person needs...

  The Things We Never Say Out Loud There are things we think about but never say. Words we hold back. Feelings we hide. Questions we want to ask but are afraid to hear the answers to. Sometimes, we stay silent because we don’t want to hurt someone. Sometimes, we don’t know how to explain what we’re feeling. And sometimes, we simply get tired of trying to make people understand. So we say, “It’s fine.” We smile when something bothers us. We change the subject when a conversation gets too close to the truth. We tell people we’re okay because explaining that we’re not feels like too much work. But not everything we keep inside disappears. Some thoughts stay with us long after a conversation ends. Some words replay in our minds when everything around us is quiet. And some feelings are difficult to explain, even to ourselves. Maybe that’s the strange thing about being human. We can have so much going on inside us while looking completely ordinary on the outside. Everyone has a ...