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Ran into an old friend recently. 🤣

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𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝗜 𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗮 𝗯𝗲𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗳𝘂𝗹 𝗺𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗲... Love starts with the illusion that we’ll finally understand someone completely... At first, we try to know everything about them; their thoughts, their habits, their silences. It feels comforting to believe that closeness means clarity. But real love changes that idea...

You slowly realize the person you love will always remain a little unknown. Not because they are distant, but because they are alive. Always changing, always becoming someone new...

And instead of feeling threatened by that, you begin to accept it. That’s where love matures...

Mature love doesn’t try to rewrite someone. It doesn’t ask them to shrink into a version that feels easier to understand. It starts respecting the space inside them that no one else can fully enter. It stops treating love like possession and starts treating it like presence. You don’t hold on tighter. You trust more...

Because love is not about merging into a single identity, but about two independent souls walking in the same direction, under the very same sky...