Your soul watchers who don't seek spotlights...
- Shailendra Tipparaju
- Apr 29
- 1 min read
Some connections pose for the world.
Others kneel beside your brokenness and never ask for credit.
The ones we display?
They shimmer in dinner lights and festival frames.
They tell stories that sound whole...
even if, deep down, something’s missing.
They show love like a badge,
but badges don’t bleed with you.
The visible ones?
They show up quietly.
With soup when you haven’t eaten.
With silence when the noise in your heart is too loud.
With presence that doesn’t ask, “What happened?”...
because they already know.
They sit on the edge of your grief
and don’t try to fix it.
They let your tears fall without wiping them away too soon.
They don’t rush your healing.
They hold space for it.
Some relationships are easy to celebrate,
but hard to count on.
Others are hard to describe,
but impossible to forget.
You won’t find them in captions.
You’ll find them in the quiet corners of your life...
folding laundry beside you after a loss,
bringing laughter to a numb day,
or just… staying without talls words of help.
Not everyone who claps for you loves you.
And not everyone who loves you makes noise.
Some are just there
the way a hand finds yours in the dark.
So choose the ones
who see your truth and still stay.
Choose the ones
who never made you beg for being understood.
Because at the end of it all,
when your voice trembles, your strength fades, and the world forgets…
they won’t.
They’ll still be there.
Still holding you.
Still loving you.
Even when you forget how to love yourself.
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