Peace doesn’t always look like happiness
It takes time to understand that peace doesn’t always announce itself.
It doesn’t arrive with fireworks, or a rush of freedom.
Sometimes, peace simply means the absence of what used to hurt.
And when you’ve lived in survival mode for too long,
that absence can feel strange - even empty.
It’s not that something’s missing.
It’s just that your nervous system doesn’t know how to live without the noise.
Healing doesn’t always feel good
You might look around and think, Shouldn’t I feel better by now?
But healing rarely feels like joy at the start.
It often feels like nothing - like a flat line after years of chaos.
Like silence after constant alarms.
It’s not that you’ve lost emotion.
It’s that your body has finally stopped running.
You’re not broken. You’re just learning what calm feels like
after a lifetime of being ready to protect yourself.
Peace moves slowly
Peace asks for patience.
It moves slow, almost shyly.
It’s not the loud celebration - it’s the quiet room after the music stops.
It’s not euphoria - it’s the small, gentle realization
that you don’t have to fight anymore.
That stillness can feel uncomfortable at first.
Especially when you’ve spent years mistaking chaos for aliveness.
But peace doesn’t need to prove itself - it just needs to stay.
Safe doesn’t mean numb
So if you can’t feel much right now, that’s okay.
Maybe this is what peace feels like for you at first:
neutral, calm, uneventful.
You haven’t gone numb - you’ve gone safe.
You’re learning to rest in a kind of quiet that doesn’t demand anything from you.
And one day, this stillness won’t feel strange anymore.
It will start to feel like home.
🧡 this is public feelings
reporting live from the inside.