Lessons, Recomm and wisdom || God did.
Nairobi, Kenya
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Amek🇰🇪 retweeted
Fr, being needed gives you a role. Being loved gives you a place. I spent years in the role and called it love.
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Lowkey still recovering from finding out how many people only liked me when I was useful. This post said it too cleanly.
Amek🇰🇪 retweeted
Some of us built our entire sense of worth on being needed. Finding out it wasn’t the same as being loved still stings, tho.
The painful part is how long you can go without noticing the difference. Being needed felt so close to being loved that I didn’t question it for years.
Amek🇰🇪 retweeted
Been sitting with this for weeks. The people who loved the unchallenging version of me are the same ones calling me cold now.
Been trying to explain this to someone who keeps saying “you’ve changed.” Yeah. That was the point.
Amek🇰🇪 retweeted
I think there's a quiet grief in realizing that becoming yourself might mean disappointing people who loved the version of you that never challenged anything. But you can't spend your whole life being easy to understand at the expense of being honest with yourself.
