Tag: self-worth

There are few lessons in life as painful — and as liberating — as learning how to fall out of love with the idea you once had of someone. For much of my life, I clung to the hope that people I cared deeply for would one day become who I believed they could be. I fell in love not with who they were, but with the version of them I created in my head — full of promise, potential, and unspoken change. But promise and potential are only ever hypothetical. And after years of waiting, hoping, and shrinking myself to fit the small spaces others offered me, I finally understood that holding on was costing me more than letting go ever would.