Happiness is not the rush you feel after one good date. It is not the sudden sense that you have “finally found your person” because someone laughed at your joke and touched your arm. That is chemistry. Chemistry is loud. Happiness is not. Happiness is closer to emotional hygiene. It is routine. It is unexciting. It is doing small things…
I’ve been in love enough times to know it’s not always candlelight and slow dances. Sometimes it’s betrayal in the form of a text. Sometimes it’s silence where there used to be warmth. And sometimes it’s watching someone choose someone else while you’re still holding all the memories. When it happened to me — the breakup, the rejection, the slow…