Protect your peace

With everything in you, safeguard it like it is your own beating heart.

It takes commitment and practice. Because most of us have spent our entire lives doing the exact opposite.

Compromising for other people. Adapting. Saying yes to things that deep down we wish so badly we could say no.

We exhaust every bit of ourselves to do what we think we “should” rather than what we actually want.

We compromise everything we said we would never do again.

We bend and backflip.

It fucking hurts but we do it anyway.

Over-analyze every moment and word; as if we can look any deeper and somehow change what is to come.

We don’t even try to hold the line.

And then, we find ourselves here again. Fucking exhausted and experiencing this special sort of storm inside of ourselves, trying to breathe ourselves back to our peace.

I’ve learned that none of the energy spent on any of this is worth it.

All of this would be better spent on literally anything else.

The boundaries.

Holding them.

Saying no.

Not anymore.

If I respect myself, the person that I have become, I should hold more space for myself than I do for others.

Let the connection go, to protect my peace.

Stop fighting, to protect my peace.

Say no thanks, to protect my peace.

If it doesn’t work anymore, it doesn’t work.

Keep drawing the line. Redraw it. Hold yourself to it.

Make it look easy. Breathe it in and let it run through.

The things we didn’t choose are especially not ours to hold.

We don’t have a responsibility to hold more for any reason.

Protect your peace. Protect your peace. Say no, and protect your peace.

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