In a bustling café in the heart of a nameless city, Maya, a kind but frustrated woman, learns a life-altering truth: kindness is no excuse for self-sacrifice. Amidst coffee cups and conversations, she meets Alex, an unlikely friend who helps her navigate the rocky terrain of self-respect, challenging society’s warped ideas about kindness, sacrifice, and silent suffering. "Kindness is not about letting people walk over you." Now, those words would have been music to my ears... if I’d heard them back then. But like most epiphanies, it came a little late for me. Back when I was blissfully unaware that my “kindness” could be my undoing, I was just Maya, a nice girl, sitting alone in a quaint café in the city, staring into my third cup of tea. I remember it was raining outside, a kind of soft, gentle drizzle that perfectly matched the soft, steady erosion of my own boundaries. If only my story had ended with a lovely scene of raindrops and chamomile tea, but no, it took a long, me
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