You Don't Need Their Applause

"When the people we call kin go cold the moment we catch fire—promoted, celebrated, finally arriving—the silence can feel like a haunting. It leaves us questioning our own worth. But the truth is simpler and sharper: success is a mirror. To those who have refused their own calling, your growth is a painful reminder of their stagnation. They aren't running from you; they are fleeing from the reflection you provide.

There is an epidemic of 'sameness' in our world—a desperate race to be anyone but ourselves. Yet, my clinical conviction remains: you were designed for a unique frequency. I am not here to be another therapist; I am here to be the only me this collective will ever have. And you have that same sacred duty to yourself.

If the silence of those you love is strangling your peace, demand the truth. Not out of anger, but out of a refusal to be a prisoner of their secrets. If they recoil from your honesty, let that be the 'shaking of the dust.' Some people are only meant to be chapters, not the whole book. Walk away not in contempt, but in the radical freedom of knowing that if they cannot celebrate your light, they were never meant to share your flame." 

"Whose silence have you been trying to translate into your own failure?"