A Heart Does Not Turn Cold Unless It’s Been Treated with Coldness for a While
They say time changes people, but often it is not time alone, it is how people are treated over time that causes the shift. A warm heart, open and vulnerable, does not just freeze overnight. It takes repeated frost to kill what once bloomed. This quote “A heart does not turn cold unless it’s been treated with coldness for a while” , is a quiet truth many of us learn the hard way. Coldness isn't always loud. It can be silence where there should have been conversation. Indifference when support was needed. Detachment where there should have been closeness. And eventually, it wears you down. We do not become distant without reason. We do not build walls unless we have been left exposed too many times. When kindness meets neglect, again and again, the soul begins to retreat. The smile that used to come easily fades. The lightness in laughter dims. What is left is a heart guarded not out of bitterness, but out of survival. But here is the thing: behind every cold heart is a story, oft...
