Silent Wisdom…
There is a kind of wisdom that never needs to speak loud. It grows inside you through every mistake you watched someone make, every choice you refused to repeat, and every quiet promise you made to yourself when no one was looking. I carry that kind of wisdom. It follows me like a shadow, steady and loyal, shaped by the women I grew up watching and the life I have lived. I have seen women I love choose paths that led them into storms they never deserved. I have seen them dim their own light trying to save people who were never meant to be permanent. I have watched them carry pain with straight backs and tired hearts, and I paid attention. I learned. Not to judge. Not to distance myself. I learned to choose better. I learned that survival alone is not the goal. Growth is the goal. Peace is the goal. A life that feels good to wake up to is the goal.
Every season of my life has taught me something. Every disappointment turned into discipline. Every heartbreak turned into clarity. Every closed door pushed me to build my own. I grew from everything and everybody, even when the lessons were heavy. Even when the teachers had no idea they were teaching me. That is what silent wisdom does. It sits inside you and quietly rewrites your standards. I can feel something bigger calling me. It is like my soul already knows where I am supposed to be, and every day I wake up hungry for the next step. I want better because I am meant for better. I push myself because comfort never created greatness. I hold myself accountable because I refuse to become a woman who settles. There is power in choosing differently. There is power in healing what you watched break others. There is power in trusting what God planted in you even when no one else sees it.
I know I am rising into a new version of myself. A stronger version. A wiser version. A woman who is not afraid to walk away from anything that threatens her peace. A woman who understands that silence is not weakness. Silence is awareness. Silence is maturity. Silence is instinct teaching you how to move with purpose. This journey is mine, and I claim it with confidence. I claim the lessons. I claim the growth. I claim the greatness I can feel waking up in me day by day. My silent wisdom has carried me this far, and it will carry me even further. I am becoming the woman I used to look up to. The one I used to dream about. The one who refuses to fold. This is my season of clarity. My season of strength. My season of choosing better on purpose. The success inside me is no longer sleeping. It is speaking now, and I am listening.
XOXO Kaye,