“The longer I live, the more deeply I learn that love—whether we call it friendship or family or romance—is the work of mirroring each other’s light. Gentle work. Steadfast work. Life-saving work in those moments when shame and sorrow occlude our own light from view, but there is still a clear eyed loving person to beam it back. In our best moments, we are that person for another”
– James Baldwin, Nothing Personal
I have spent much of my life trying to avoid the rest of the world seeing me the way I was taught to see myself. I learned to make myself useful, helpful, and self-contained. I thought if I could just be everything for everyone, I could earn my worth back, avoid burdening other people, but this deepened a feeling of innate separation from others. This sense that everyone held an invitation of belonging I had somehow missed.
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