06/03/2026
There is a specific kind of audacity that comes with people who have never walked a single mile in your shoes but have plenty to say about how you are walking. Who have never faced what you faced, never lost what you lost, never had to rebuild from the ground you were left standing on, and yet feel completely qualified to offer their opinion on your choices, your reactions, and the way you have chosen to survive. That judgment costs them nothing and it means exactly that to you, nothing, because it comes from a place of zero lived experience and even less understanding of what it actually took to get you here.
You are not obligated to explain your journey to people who were not there for it. You are not required to justify your scars to people who never saw the wounds. The ones who have truly been through something understand instinctively that you cannot judge a path you have never walked, and they extend grace accordingly. Everyone else can keep their opinions. You have been through too much and come too far to let the judgment of someone who has never lived your life carry any weight in the story you are still writing.
