Not in a hurry though.
I'm enjoying learning to be on my own

I mean, what's the point of all this life stuff if not to love all your people with your whole heart?
I'll be okay. I'm not yet, but I will be

The world needs a lot of people making smaller/improved choices a lot more than it needs a select few making "perfect" choices, whatever that means

This mindset applies to a lot of other topics, too

If you want to compliment them, get specific. Compliment their emotional intelligence or ability to ask for help when needed or creative problem solving skills.
Encourage specific skills and traits, not the amorphous blob of behaviors and experiences packaged in the vague concept of "maturity".
3/3

Please don't call young people "mature for their age" as a compliment. Measuring worth like that creates pressure to pretend you're more developed than you are and opens you up to a higher potential for being groomed, used, traumatized by older adults.
Let them be undercooked.
Let that be okay.
2/

Some switch in my brain flipped and any lingering hope or desire to try again left me.

I'm free

This thread brought to you by my self-soothing practice while I repeatedly fail to defeat a boss in Hollow Knight: Silksong.

Do your best, face your failures with curiosity, implement what you learned, and go kill it.
2/2

I want to see who my lover is when they're so f*cking happy and self actualized.
It should never be either/or. It isn't a choice. It's symbiosis. Exponential joy.
I wouldn't have it any other way