Commitment gives you freedom because you're no longer distracted by the unimportant and frivolous. - Mark Manson

Then, as we grow older and enter middle age, something else begins to change. Our energy level drops. Our identity solidifies. We know who we are and we accept ourselves, including some of the parts we aren’t thrilled about.

And then I realised that each individual gets to decide what is 'enough', and that love can be whatever we let it be.

As a rule, people who are terrified of what others think about them are actually terrified of all the shitty things they think about themselves being reflected back at them.) Some