Unsaid things vol 2

 The Unsaid Things — About Being Needed

There’s an unspoken rule that if you’re capable, you’ll cope.

If you’re steady, you’ll carry it.

If you don’t fall apart, you must be fine.

Being needed has a way of disguising itself as purpose.

It gives you a role.

A rhythm.

A reason not to ask awkward questions about yourself.

At first, it feels like love.

Then responsibility.

Then expectation.

Somewhere along the way, your own needs start sounding optional.

Inconvenient.

Selfish, even.

When everyone relies on you, rest begins to feel undeserved.

Silence feels suspicious.

And asking for help feels like a personal failure rather than a human one.

You learn how to be useful in every room.

How to read the temperature.

How to arrive already adjusted.

What nobody says is that being needed can quietly replace being known.

People see what you do far more than who you are when nothing is required of you.

There’s a particular loneliness in being the strong one.

The reliable one.

The one who always manages.

You don’t collapse — you compartmentalise.

You don’t disappear — you make yourself smaller in ways that look generous from the outside.

And still, you show up.

Because you care.

Because walking away would cause ripples you don’t have the energy to manage.

This isn’t resentment.

It’s recognition.

There’s a difference between being loved and being relied upon.

And sometimes the bravest thing isn’t continuing —

it’s admitting you’re tired of being the answer to everyone else’s needs.

Some truths don’t ask to be fixed.

They just want to be named. A song I wrote and made using suno. 

Tonight, this one is.Link here