Wisdom Drop~

Kathleen House
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The Ache of Expansion

Happiness is not soft. It splits the shell you’ve been living inside. It tears the skin of your comfort so your spirit can breathe again.

“I’m happy, I’m getting consistently happier, and it’s emotionally painful. I’ve come to realize that as I grow, the people I deeply love and care about may not be able to understand this happiness and they may actually resist it to the point of unconsciously trying to drag me down. I’m coming to terms that certain people are in my life for shorter seasons than I expected while others are here for a little longer. Letting go of the need to please everyone is a painful process but a much needed one for me.”

- Andre, The Wise and Weary

When joy first returns, it feels foreign. You think you should only feel light, but there’s weight too - a pulling in the ribs, a soreness in the chest. It’s the sound of old identities cracking. You are growing, and the bones of your old self are protesting.

Not everyone can stand that sound. Some will call your happiness a phase, a delusion, a betrayal. They will miss who you were, the version of you that matched their own fear. You’ll sense it in their silence, their side comments, their distance. Their energy will want to fold you back into something smaller.

But this ache, this splitting, is sacred. It is not punishment; it’s expansion. You are learning to breathe at a higher altitude. You are remembering the vastness of your spirit, and that remembrance burns through the parts of you built on approval.

Let them misunderstand. Let them think you’ve changed - because you have. Your joy is a rebellion. It’s an act of defiance against the gravity of your past.

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