There comes a time when you’ve given so much love, kindness, and understanding to people who only came to take — and still, you keep showing up with a soft heart. I’ve lived that story more than once. I opened my life, my heart, and my truth to people who smiled in my face but threw knives the moment I turned away. They twisted my words, my kindness, and my love into something ugly — not because of who I was, but because they couldn’t stand the light that lived inside me.