Resilience

I found you can cope with someone repeatedly letting you down. You see, they break you down day after day until one day you're nothing but rubble. And as hard and unbearably painful that is, after that point there's literally nothing further they can do. They broke you and yet you are still here, still breathing. Suddenly it doesn't shock you, or hurt you the next time. You find instead of doing structural damage, it just rebounds. So you rebuild, and you take solace in the fact that if a person is that destructive, they can't be happy. You no longer look internally for reasons why they caused you pain and you realise you actually pity them. You know you can always rebuild, that you've already survived the worst things imaginable and you didn't die. That's why damaged people are dangerous.. They know they can survive.