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Maybe you were a detour I was always meant to take. An unexpected turning in the road I had to follow, even if only for a while. Perhaps I needed to see you, to know you, to understand the person I had to become before continuing my journey. It feels selfish to call it a detour, doesn’t it? What about the small home we built along the way? The one made of conversations and shared silences? I took my time there. I believed, believed, even if only briefly, that the road might end with you. But it was never selfish, not to you, and not to me. In that brief crossing, we both learned. We learned how to hold, how to forgive, how to care. Perhaps we were meant to forgive something old between us, to loosen the invisible thread that had bound us long before this lifetime. And now I see it clearly. I had to take that turn before I could continue my journey. Not because you were not enough, but because you were never meant to be the place I stayed. Maybe I wanted it to be you. Maybe a part of me always did. But you were already building a life that did not have a space for me. And standing at the edge of it, I realized gently, almost peacefully. Sometimes the road does not take you away to punish you. Sometimes it brings you there first, so you would know what your heart was meant to learn before it can keep walking. M. | the detour March 2026

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Have you ever wondered how many times a heart can begin again? Some loves arrive early, when you are still a stranger to yourself. Everything feels new and overwhelming, and you do not quite know what to do with the feelings placed gently in your hands. You stumble, make mistakes, and somewhere along the way, you lose it. Then love comes again. This time you tell yourself you have learned. You promise you will do better, be wiser, hold it more carefully. You believe that experience will somehow protect you from losing it the way you once did. Yet again, you lose it. And sometimes again after that. Then one day another love appears. It carries a familiar warmth, something that reminds you of the loves that came before it. Yet the essence feels different somehow, quieter, deeper, harder to explain. And yet, instead of dreaming about forever, you find yourself wondering when it will fall apart. Because the last time you loved, you gave everything you had. And when they left, they took those pieces with them. So now you love differently. Your hands remain half-closed, letting only the smallest particles of love slip through your fingers. Not because you no longer feel deeply, but because you cannot afford to lose much more. And perhaps, if you are honest with yourself, it is because you are no longer certain how much love remains in you or how much you are willing to let go. So you ask yourself, will this love be the kind of forever people speak of? Or will you cut your hair short again, wearing it as the story of yourself, over and over? M. | love me, love me not? March 2026

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Being an overanalytical person, I often find myself wondering about the smallest things. Like the time he said, “You are beautiful,” when you had just woken up. Your eyes were still heavy with sleep, your face a little puffy, your hair completely uncooperative. Yet somehow, he found you most beautiful that way. Or when you were in baggy shirts and loose pants. Or when you cried over books and movies. We grow up believing beauty means being neat and presentable. Looking like we made an effort before stepping out into the world. But perhaps the beauty someone sees when you are at your least put together is something else entirely. The vulnerability. The comfort of being completely yourself around them. It is the same feeling when someone speaks about the things they love. Their plans, their passions, the small worlds living inside their minds. Even when you understand very little of it, something about the way they light up makes them beautiful to you. Because they are not trying to impress you. They are simply letting you see a part of them that not everyone gets to see. And maybe that is what makes someone truly beautiful. When someone feels safe enough to be exactly who they are, and someone else sees that and loves them for it. The kind of beauty we do not notice at first, but remember the longest. Quiet and steady, like moonlight. Warm and alive, like a small fire. Not perfection. Not effort. Just two people, completely seen and accepted. M. March 2026

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On the day we died, we cried in the morning. We stayed in bed a little longer, touching each other’s faces with our eyes closed, as if trying to learn them again in the dark. Neither of us said much. Some words, once spoken, make the end impossible to pretend away. Eventually we rose, dressed in our best clothes, and walked to the cafΓ© where we always get our coffee. The barista greeted us the way she always does, unaware that this was the last morning we would sit by the window. He ordered the same drink he always does, and I pretended to complain about it, the way I always do. Our hands brushed briefly as we reached for the cups, and I felt a quiet warmth I knew I would miss. Outside, the city moved the way it always had. Cars passed. Someone laughed too loudly at another table. The world went on, paying no mind to the ending that belonged only to us. He told me stories I had heard many times before about the summer we spent by the sea about the night we got lost in the rain and laughed until morning. After the coffee we walked slowly through the streets we knew by heart past the bookstore where we once spent an entire rainy afternoon past the park bench where he first told me he loved me. We waited for the sunset, but the clouds kept it hidden, as if the sky had chosen not to witness our last evening. Then the darkness settled and the road before us quietly parted. He took one path, and I took the other. And just like that, we died. Or perhaps I died first, for I stayed behind long enough to see him walk away without ever glancing back. M. | the departures March 2026

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I sometimes wonder how many last times there were, that we never noticed. The last message. The last walk together. The last ordinary day. And the older I get, the more I realize life rarely gives warnings. M. | March 2026

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π‘΄π’π’π’…π’‚π’šπ’” π’Šπ’ 𝒂 𝒏𝒖𝒕𝒔𝒉𝒆𝒍𝒍. It’s Monday, and I must say it hadn’t been a good one. Though, in fairness, that feels like an unnecessary clarification. Mondays rarely arrive with good intentions. Between the endless demands at work, the co-worker who behaves as though they are both invisible and the single greatest contribution to the modern workplace (they are neither), and the strange culture that treats leaving on time as if it were a minor criminal offense, the day stretched itself out like some slow, petty form of punishment. Emails multiplied. Tasks appeared out of thin air. Somewhere between late morning and mid-afternoon, you experienced what can only be described as four small, private mental breakdowns. Nothing dramatic though. Just the quiet kind where you stare at your screen a little too long and briefly consider disappearing into the wilderness to raise goats. Eventually, the day ended. Or at least the office stopped pretending it needed you. You got into your car with clouds in your head. Not the romantic, poetic kind but the dense, grey administrative type that fills your head with thoughts like why does everything need a password and why is the printer always out of paper. You remember starting the engine. After that, the drive home dissolved into a blur of red lights, familiar turns, and the strange autopilot that takes over when your brain has quietly resigned for the evening. One moment you were leaving the office parking lot. The next, you were sitting in your garage. Engine off. House quiet. Mind somewhere between exhaustion and mild existential confusion. You sat there for a moment, hands still resting on the steering wheel, staring at nothing in particular, like someone who had briefly forgotten how evenings work. Then you sighed. Because adulthood, much like Monday, is relentless. And you thought to yourself, well. I better go file my taxes. M. | March 2026

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Maybe romantic love is not the main story in your life right now. But love has never been limited to a single chapter. It continues to exist in many other forms. In parents who loved you long before you understood what love was. In family who stand beside you through every version of yourself. In friendships that stay and grow stronger with time. In the passions and small joys that remind you that you are alive. There is more love in this world than we sometimes remember, just waiting to be shared. Sometimes all we need is to look again. Happy International Women’s Day, to all the amazing women around the world. May we never forget the grace and the strength and beauty we carry within us. With all my love, Mila 8 March 2026

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