Stop pursuing if they don’t reciprocate

Thank you. Thank you so much. The past experience genuinely broke my heart. I lost interesting in everything, I wonder if I’ll ever be my former self again. I miss myself. I miss the happy me. I buried my emotions deep inside and I’m scared of opening that bottle in case it explodes. But I realised, if you truly loved someone like that but it wasn’t reciprocated to the same level, wouldn’t it make sense to let them go? Was overcompensating really the way to hold that breaking bridge together? I realised that I’m not responsible for someones happiness, I’m responsible for my own happiness. No one owes me anything and thats fair game. But it still hurts and I’m not sure that I’ll the light at the end of the tunnel anytime soon. But I guess I just have to be patient and rebuild myself.

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