I've been both the betrayed and the betrayer.
And after living on both sides of betrayal...
I'd rather be betrayed.
Not because betrayal doesn't hurt.
It does.
But wounds eventually become scars.
The weight of knowing you became someone who hurt another human being...
That can stay with you for a very long time.
Communication is never optional.
If we don't intentionally communicate, people will still receive a message.
Our silence communicates.
Our body language communicates.
Our timing communicates.
And when communication leaves a blank...
Someone will fill it.
We are not born fully formed.
We become ourselves one conversation, one heartbreak, one friendship, one ordinary Tuesday at a time.
Maybe I am shaped by everything that has happened to me.
But who I become because of those things...
That part is still my choice.
