Wisdom looks different once you stop caring what people think.

You spent enough years biting your tongue, smoothing things over, keeping the peace for everyone but yourself. Somewhere along the way you got tired of it. Two words fixed more problems than a decade of patience ever did.

Everyone wants to call it wisdom when it's dressed up nicely, but the real version usually just sounds like this. You earned the right to stop softening it. Happily ever after looks a lot better without the apology.

Rebel Ink calls that a happy ending too.