I believe some people are sent into your life specifically to destroy a version of you that needed to die.
They're not a lesson. They're not a mistake. They were never meant to stay.
They came to burn something down.
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Not your worth.
Not your future.
Not your capacity to love.
They came for the false things:
The parts of you built around being chosen, approved of, or saved.
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Some souls arrive carrying a match.
Not because they hate you.
Because the life waiting for you cannot be entered by the person you currently are.
So they ignite the collapse.
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That's why losing them feels like dying.
A version of you is dying.
From inside the fire, you can't tell the difference between losing yourself and finding yourself.
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Only later do you realize:
You're different.
Not broken. Just built different now.
Some deaths feel like endings until you realize they were introductions.
That was the whole point.
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- © Rae Wellington