Thread by @AfsaRosette

One of my fave quotes: “Just keep living. If you live long enough, it’ll all make sense.” Bc life doesn’t hand you understanding when you demand it. It hands you confusion. Then time. Then patterns. Then contrast. Then more time. Then if you’re willing, clarity. Let me explain…

My take from this is.. stay long enough in the story & life will hand you the missing pages. Sometimes torn, stained or beautiful. But you’ll finally see the thread. Bc some ppl do come back.

To face you & confess. To finally say, “I see what I did.” It doesn’t undo what happened or make you trust them again. But it does something subtle, it validates your memory. You’re no longer the only one holding the weight of what went unsaid.
They now carry a piece of it too.

Sometimes it’s years later. Sometimes you run into them randomly, &. they’re no longer proud of who they were. They’re embarrassed. They’ve been haunted too.

And that’s something no one talks about, how some ppl are punished not by karma, but by their own awakening. They start to feel the depth of what they once dismissed. They realise your worth in hindsight, and the memory of how they mishandled you becomes their teacher.

You’ll start to see life’s sophistication. The way it hides truth inside tension. The way it reveals meaning not in answers, but in your evolution.
You’ll learn to stop asking, “Why did this happen to me?” and start asking, “What was this trying to break open in me?”

You start understanding ppl too. The ones who couldn’t show up for you. Some ppl are master escape artists of their own shame bc they’ve built their entire identity on not being wrong. And that’s the thing nobody tells you when you’re younger.

That some apologies you’ll never get. Some mothers won’t ever say “I’m sorry I didn’t protect you.” Some fathers won’t ever admit they weren’t present. Some lovers will walk away like you meant nothing, even when you were everything.

And eventually life starts making sense when you stop trying to force it into a timeline. Bc life isn’t linear. It repeats what you didn’t learn & reveals what you couldn’t see. What you thought was a curse becomes the curriculum.