Self-reliance.

What's the alternative. To depend on others to feel good. To please others over your own needs and wants to feel worthy of feeling good. To heal others and hoping in the process, you heal yourself. But there’s a whole lot of people needing to be healed. Including yourself. Who do you know the most? Where do you begin?

Nobody knows you as well as you know yourself. Let’s begin there. Expecting others to do so and feeling disappointed when you notice otherwise, is a bit realistic, let’s leave it there.

Just next time you are about to say "You don't know me", smile and let go. It's not the right measure to judge their love for you. No one knows you as well as you do and no one will. That's the harsh truth.

We change constantly. A lot is happening. Specially if you are going through hard times. You evolve. You leave people behind. You can’t keep updating them with the latest. And at one point, even with your closest, you will feel out of loop. They don’t know you as you are. Don’t expect them to.