Sometimes a little distance is good. It can give you perspective, a clearer head, some healing time.
I think for me, disappointment kills the most. When I think back about how the people I put on pedestals fell from grace, I realised it impacted my relationships with them massively. It was abandonment. Disappointment arising from abandonment.
What scares me the most about people is one moment they could be so close to you. And the next, they seem a million miles away.
I promised myself the last time it happened that I would look after myself. I don’t need to be close to anyone. The people who stick around the longest, the ones who make the sacrifices and say and do what they say, those are the ones I trust.
Those are the ones deserving of my full attention and love.
