TW - Does Anybody Hear Her?

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Aww sweet Kiara.

I’m so sorry.

Of course I don’t have the perfect words for you, but you matter! There is healing and goodness - more than you have now!

@jesusredeemedme2425 you're not broken 🤍 and you don't make me uncomfortable 🤍

You're loved by my side ❤️

Does anybody hear? Does anybody see?

These are the kinds of questions that ache in places even words can’t reach.

You look around and see people living shiny lives filled with rainbows and light, while you’re drowning in neglect… grieving love that never came.

The shame you carry… the worthlessness…

The rage toward those who hurt you, lied to you, shattered you piece by piece…

You say there are two sides of you—but I don’t think that’s true.

There’s only one.

One side that was born to love, and be loved.

But that love never came—not the way you needed it.

So that one side broke.

You’re not pretending to be someone else—you’re just surviving.

Smiling, masking, pleasing, fawning.

Doing what you have to do.

And when you do try to feel, the guilt eats you alive.

I’m not saying this to compare, but I want to gently say: not all men are monsters, just like not all women are innocent.

I’ve been cheated on. Lied to. Abandoned like I never meant anything.

But I try not to hate anyone as a whole. Because pain doesn’t belong to one gender—it belongs to the broken. And we’re all breaking in our own ways.

There’s a silly quote I say sometimes:

“Men? Women? Yuck. Both genders suck. Embrace cats. Meow meow.”

Take it or leave it—but maybe it’ll make you smile.

It's not sexist to hate both genders, but it's either like both, or hate both, not one of them🙂

You wonder if people hear you… if they see you.

We may not always see with our eyes, or hear with our ears…

But we feel.

And I feel you.

You think your smiles are fake—but I don’t believe that.

In fact, I think your smile is more real than most.

Because for happy people, smiling is effortless.

But you? You fight a war every time you smile.

Your smile is forged through pain.

That makes it sacred.

You say you’re too broken.

But listen to me—even a shattered vase can hold light.

And you do.

You hold so much love in you… maybe even more than you can carry.

That doesn’t make you too much. That makes you precious.

And absolutely worthy of being loved back.

I don’t even know you. But I would feel sadness if I lost you.

I would grieve you like I’ve known you forever.

Because what you just wrote? It’s the cry of a soul that deserves to be heard.

And I hear you.

You matter.

Not just to strangers like me.

But because you’re alive. And loving. And still standing, even when everything inside is begging to collapse.

You matter.

Meow out😼

@jesusredeemedme2425 We hear you. We see you. I think maybe we've all had moments, days, weeks, months....years like this. Where we hide behind a mask of false bravado and painted on smiles. Some people are so painfully aware of what it's like to feel unwanted and unloved that they'd do just about anything so that others don't have to suffer through the same. 

You have a heart that was made to love and be loved. We see this in the warm welcomes you give and the kindness you show everyone. Sometimes I think maybe we give so much of ourselves, that we leave nothing left for "us" . 

Broken clay pots aren't thrown away. They have just as much worth as unbroken ones. They can be repaired but they need to be handled gently, just as your heart should be. 

You are Not too much, you haven't said too much. I don't think you've made anyone uncomfortable and even if you did, never be silent for someone else's comfort because you deserve to be heard. ❤️

@jesusredeemedme2425

Kiara, we can be all of those things at the same time, lying side by side, you can be happy and joyful, and also scared and sad. There are many layers to us. It's exhausting feeling like you are living your life but through a looking glass, people are talking to you and you are answering, they are laughing and you laugh too, but it's like your life is going on around you and you are not aware of it. Abuse is cruel, it's horrible, it takes so much away from you and continues to haunt you at times you least expect . It's ok to shout, to cry, to not be ok, to need to scream, to need comfort. Here you are not invisible, your very name popping up makes me smile, your humour, your kindness, we can all be struggling or broken but still strong and trying, they can and do coexist 💜💕 and hear me when I say, thank you for your presence, I love you 🥰💜

I want to hear you as best as I can.

You're not useless. You were always meant to be way more than a clay pot. I mean, who goes around using clay pots? You've been reshaping yourself this whole time, helping to redefine the world for others like you.

You deserve to be taken care of too, but the messages you send in trying to help others goes a long way. You should feel empowered. You will always matter more than you'll be able to see.

As for sharing too much, you don't. Perhaps your challenge should be to practice unmasking? Does anyone even know your full story? You're a beautiful person inside. Not everyone is capable of seeing it, but that doesn't make it any less true. And some things lying deep might be the real things that should be getting aired out.

There's no magic key in what I'm saying or what anyone else is saying, but maybe you're the one holding it. No matter whether you're at your lowest or highest, I want to be here to empower you. Clearly a lot of us here feel the same, and it speaks a lot for who you are. The real you. And I'm proud of that "you", no matter how much you're struggling. I'm grateful every day for you being who you are, never forget that. That's how friendship should be.

Hi! I have seen many of your past posts, but mainly in the "fun" sections. I always see and appreciate how you try to create community here on 7-cups. You care. You are involved. You show empathy for others, no matter how challenged they are. You seem to be a genuinely caring person. That's the side I've seen. 

Despite the shiny happy exteriors that we may want to show the world, we're all raw, real, vulnerable people on the inside. We all have our flaws, our challenges, our struggles, and our past and present (and future) misfortunes to deal with. 

How do we cope with the challenges of being human? Many of us find some real value in a sense of community, and I've seen how you have helped create that community here. So, for what it's worth, and accepting the fact that I don't know anything at all about you other than brief glimmers, I am grateful for you sharing your beautiful, insightful, and sensitive self with us. Thank you. 

@jesusredeemedme2425

But if we werent broken -- we would never know what love is and how it repairs.

♥️