“Feelings off. Walls up. Not a defense mechanism, just boundaries built from too many lessons learned the hard way.”
There comes a time when your spirit gets tired, not broken, not bitter, just tired.
Tired of explaining your silence. Tired of proving your purity.
Tired of being an open book in a world that only reads to gossip.
You start to feel off, not because you have lost yourself, but because you finally see through the noise.
You are no longer moved by empty words, grand gestures, or people who only show up when it is convenient.
That is not coldness, that is clarity. So, the walls go up.
Not out of fear, but out of wisdom. You realize not everyone who knocks deserves to be let in.
Some people only come to redecorate your peace with their chaos.
Others want to study your softness just to find where to cut next.
And you?
You are done auditioning for loyalty. You have earned the right to choose silence over small talk, solitude over superficial, peace over people.
You have realised the hardest lesson of all, protecting your energy is not selfish, it is survival.
Because feelings may go off sometimes, but intuition never lies. And when the walls rise, it is not to shut love out, it is to remind the world that not every soul is for sale, and not every heart is still accepting applications.
I am not cold, I am cautious. There is a difference between being guarded and being done letting clowns camp in your castle.
