We often feel pressure to keep the momentum in relationships—text back, check in, follow up. But sometimes, constant reaching out crowds out connection.

Leave enough room for someone to miss you—to remember, to reach back, to choose you on their own.

The ball is not always in your court.

There's a counterintuitive irony in life: the more we grasp at something, the further and faster it runs away.

Do not grasp. Allow.

Try to catch a bird, and it panics and flees. But if you simply extend your hand, it might come to rest there.

Sometimes, the one you yearn for won’t return. There will be no follow-up. No reciprocal desire.

It’s better to let the bird fly free than to cage it. Love stays only when it’s free to leave.