Operation Palestinian, Mission Accomplished.

"People know what they're doing to you. You don't have to address anything to a grown person; let them move as they wish, and you just move out of the way, respectfully."

There comes a point where I realize love should never require you abandon your own soul, yourself, just to make someone stay. I think a lot of people slowly lose pieces of who they are in the name of being loved. They quiet their thoughts, let go of their dreams, ignore the heaviness in their chest, and convince themselves it is worth it as long as they are not left behind. But I keep wondering what kind of love asks someone to disappear in order to keep it. What is the point of being loved if, somewhere along the way you can no longer recognize the person you've became? Maybe that is why I am drawn to the ocean so much. It is beautiful because it is free. It moves however it wants calm one moment, destructive the next, endlessly changing without asking permission for its existence. I think people deserve to live like that too. Not trapped in survival. Not apologizing for wanting more. A life where they can breathe fully without feeling guilty for wanting more than survival.

Awareness is painful sometimes because once you understand people deeply, you start seeing how much of the world is built from unhealed hearts.

Softness is not weakness when it survives hard things.