A diamond in the dark is still a diamond.
But it needs light to be seen.

If you keep staying in this space of questioning,
you'll become very good at understanding life
and very bad at living it.

At some point,
the answer won't come from thinking more.

It will come from
doing something real
even when it feels incomplete.

“Resist apathy and fear. Embrace defiant hope and softness.”

“The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.”

If you come from a dysfunctional family, stop taking relationship advice from someone who comes from a functional family. You both have completely different perceptions of love and relationships.

A person from a functional family has a healthy attachment style. Their brain has developed since childhood to have a good understanding of attachment.

If you are from a dysfunctional family, your brain has been deprived of that healthy development. So you cannot compare yourself to your friends who are in relationships or navigating them with ease.

The relationship advice and healing approach for someone from a functional family versus a dysfunctional family is completely different.

Stop comparing yourself to the rest of the world if you come from a dysfunctional family, because the very foundation of attachment can be distorted at a neurological level.