Here is the brutal truth, feelings do not change reality. You can cry over it, pray over it, argue with it, but facts do not bend for your emotions. Data is cold, sharp, and merciless, and that is exactly why you need it.
Because feelings? Feelings are liars. They will trap you in cycles, convince you to stay where you are dying, and call it love, loyalty, or patience.
Look at the data. Has the behavior changed? Has the outcome shifted? Have the promises ever become patterns?
If not, stop pretending your feelings are stronger than the facts. They are not. They never will be.
The dagger is this.
The problem might not be them. It might be you. You are the one refusing to accept what the numbers, the patterns, the evidence has been screaming all along. You are the one holding the dagger to your own throat, hopelessly wishing that feelings will save you when facts have already condemned the situation.
Facts over feelings is not cruelty, it is clarity. It is survival. It is the moment you admit, “This is what it is, not what I wish it to be.” And when you finally cut yourself out of your own delusion, you will see the dagger was not your enemy. It was your deliverance.
The day I chose to see things with a tear and guilt free view, weighed the situation, took every excuse, every manipulative word into consideration is the day I realised that I cannot cry over what I allowed.
So I removed the dagger I placed at my throat, and decided that now saying NO may cause loneliness and loss of love but it will gain me tranquility.
That is the day I chose my peace over manipulation.
That is the day I realised that the dagger ALLAH placed in my hand was to save me, not to destroy me.
