The people who stay kind after being hurt aren’t soft — they’re the most structurally complex people in any room, because they’re holding two truths at the same time: that the world can be brutal and that they refuse to be, and the energy required to hold both of those without collapsing into one is a weight that nobody sees because it looks like ease
Here’s something that trips most people up: the world can be genuinely brutal, and you can still refuse to become ...
