But what if it's not a weakness? What if it's just... how I am? And maybe the world needs some soft people too. Maybe not everyone has to be hard and strategic and always protecting themselves. Maybe there's room for people who feel things deeply and care about people and get hurt and cry about it and then come back anyway. 💭

I think I've been apologizing for being myself. Every time I cry, I apologize. Every time I get excited about something, I apologize for being too enthusiastic. Every time I show that I care about someone, I apologize for being too emotional. But what am I actually apologizing for? For having a heart? 🤔

The people who are worth having in my life are the ones who don't ask me to apologize for caring. Who don't roll their eyes when I'm passionate about something. Who understand that my softness isn't weakness—it's just who I am. And maybe they're the only ones I should be spending time with anyway. 💫

Is there a way to be soft in this world without getting completely broken by it?