05/10/2026
Nggas really grew up in households where pain had a dress code and crying wasn't on the list, where you learned early that certain feelings was supposed to get swallowed whole and digested in private, where you watched grown men shake off things that woulda broke anybody and called it strength, so you did the same, held everything down so tight for so long that your body started speaking what your mouth wasn't allowed to, anxiety showing up as anger, grief showing up as distance, hurt showing up as not needing nobody, and the wild part is you got so good at carrying it that people actually believed you was solid, never knowing that solid was just the word we used for suffering without a witness.
