✮ ⋆ ˚｡ ⋆｡°✩✮ ⋆ ˚｡ ⋆｡°✩✮ ⋆ ˚｡ ⋆｡°✩✮ ⋆ ˚｡✮ ⋆ ˚｡ ⋆｡°✩✮ press flag 4 music : | ------------------------------------------------------------------------- to all the people i’ve ever loved, you live in the quiet spaces of my mind. not loudly. just enough to remind me you’re real. like something unfinished i carry with me, even when i tell myself i’m okay. some of you stay. some of you leave. some of you fade so gently i don’t realize you’re gone until the ache shows up. and some of you—some of you never notice me at all. you don’t even know i exist, and somehow that hurts in a way i can’t fully explain. i love you quietly. from a distance. from places you never look toward. you are a presence in my life, and i am invisible in yours. i notice the small things about you while being nothing more than background, if even that. i don’t feel angry about it. just honest. you can’t miss someone you never knew was there. and the truth is… i still like you. right now. even knowing you don’t see me. even knowing you probably never will. my heart doesn’t let go just because my mind understands. the feeling stays—soft but stubborn—like it’s waiting for something that was never promised. i give pieces of myself to people who don’t know they’re holding anything fragile. i don’t blame you for not choosing me. you don’t know there is a choice. still, there are moments i wish you would look a little longer, pay a little more attention, notice that i exist quietly nearby, hoping without asking. i love the best way i know how at the time. even when that love has nowhere to land. even when it stays unspoken. even when it’s one-sided and heavy and quietly exhausting. i carry it anyway. some of you teach me what longing feels like when it has no destination. others teach me what it’s like to feel everything while being unseen. every crush, every almost, every unreturned feeling leaves a small mark—nothing dramatic, just enough to change the way i love now. i don’t regret liking you. i regret the moments i believe being invisible is the price of caring. i’m learning—slowly—that i deserve to be seen without having to disappear first. i’m not letting you go. not yet. i’m just holding you softer—without expectations that break me, without hope that hurts too much. maybe one day this feeling will loosen on its own. until then, i’m gentle with myself for still feeling it. wherever you are, i hope life is kind to you. even if you never know me, you matter to me. —with love, from someone who feels everything quietly ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ✮ ⋆ ˚｡ ⋆｡°✩✮ ⋆ ˚｡ ⋆｡°✩✮ ⋆ ˚｡ ⋆｡°✩✮ ⋆ ˚｡ ⋆｡°✩✮ ⋆
