Sometimes it is not that we do not want to talk.
It is that we have forgotten how to.

You sit with your family at dinner. Everyone is laughing, talking, sharing stories. And there is a small voice inside you that wants to say something real -something you have been holding on to for a while. But just as you are about to speak, another voice in your head says, “What if they don’t understand?” So you smile instead. You change the topic. You stay quiet. And slowly, that silence starts to feel safer than speaking.

With friends, it is the same. You laugh, share memes, talk about random things. But when it comes to what is really going on in your heart, you hesitate. Maybe trust was broken once. Maybe someone judged you. Maybe your truth was used against you. And since then, you told yourself, “I will handle it alone.” That is how walls are built - not suddenly, but one small hurt at a time. It is not that you do not want to connect. You do. You crave it. You just don’t feel safe enough to let someone in anymore.

And that is okay. Healing is not about tearing down all the walls in a day. It is about learning, slowly, that not everyone will judge you. Not everyone will leave. And not everyone will misunderstand. Sometimes, it just takes one safe person to help you open up again.

And sometimes, that safe person is you ☺️