People often say that if you truly love someone, you'll be willing to wait. But no one ever talks about this kind of waiting-the silent kind, where the person you're waiting for doesn't even know you exist in that way. They don't know there's someone choosing them every day, someone pausing their own happiness just to keep a space open for them. No one talks about how exhausting it is to keep walking forward while your heart keeps turning back. How you smile, laugh, and live as if you're fine, w