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By Chamod Senevirathne
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When you miss someone,but you cannot let it show.Not because you don’t feel itbut because the world wouldn’t understand....
01/11/2026

When you miss someone,
but you cannot let it show.
Not because you don’t feel it
but because the world wouldn’t understand.
So you carry it quietly like a sacred weight.

No calls. No letters. No confessions.
Just silent conversations within your heart.
You think of them in passing winds,
in dreams,
in quiet hours when no one’s watching.

You miss them not through words
but through stillness.
Through the space between what is said
and what is felt.
And in that space they live.

đź“– Book: You Between Words
By Chamod Senevirathne

Book link is in the comments.

“ Choose your words carefully.Choose kindness when you can.Choose courage when fear asks you to remain silent.Choose to ...
01/11/2026

“ Choose your words carefully.
Choose kindness when you can.
Choose courage when fear asks you to remain silent.

Choose to keep going when giving up feels easier.
You may think these are small decisions.
They are. But small does not mean meaningless.

A single candle does not defeat the night, yet it changes the space around it. One person cannot heal the whole world, but they can change the world of one person standing near them.
And sometimes that is how change begins.

Not with something enormous. With one person. One choice. One moment. One small light travelling farther than its source could ever see.
So, live with awareness. You do not know whose life your actions are touching.

You may never see the full ripple of your existence. Make sure what you send into the world is something worth carrying forward. “

đź“– One Hundred Truths
By Chamod Senevirathne

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You will remainIn every line I read,In every line I write.You will remain…In the words that make me pause,In the verses ...
01/11/2026

You will remain
In every line I read,
In every line I write.
You will remain…

In the words that make me pause,
In the verses that make me smile,
In the stories that take me somewhere far away. You will remain.

Perhaps I will find you in a poem, in a sentence, or in a thought that comes to me on an ordinary afternoon. Perhaps I will write something beautiful without even realizing that somewhere within those words, a little of you still lives.

The pages may turn, the seasons may change, and the world may take us in different directions. Yet, some people become part of the very language of our existence.

And you, my dear, will remain.

In every line I read.
In every line I write.

— Chamod Senevirathne
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The origin of everything we becamewas not marked by time or place,but by a feeling neither of us could name.You and I we...
31/10/2026

The origin of everything we became
was not marked by time or place,
but by a feeling neither of us could name.
You and I were never meant to be simple…
from the very beginning,
there was something deeper,
something quietly inevitable.

Our souls met in a way words could never fully hold,
as if we had known each other
long before this life remembered us.

We grew tangled in a love
that felt both like a blessing
and a quiet undoing.
And perhaps that is the tragedy of it...
not that it ended,
but that it never truly knew how to end.

There was no goodbye,
no final moment to close the door.
Just two hearts drifting into different realities,
still carrying something real…
something unfinished,
something that remains,
unwritten.

đź“– You Between Words
By Chamod Senevirathne

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Book link is in the comments. 👇🏻

I will hold youNot in my hand,But in the spaces between my thoughtsWhere silence speaks and time dissolvesYou will move ...
30/10/2026

I will hold you
Not in my hand,
But in the spaces between my thoughts
Where silence speaks and time dissolves

You will move through me
Like a wind no one else can feel
Shaping the edges of my days
Touching me in ways the world cannot see

Even in the darkest hours
Even when everything drifts away
Your presence will linger
A gentle pulse beneath my chest
A reminder that love
Does not vanish
It transforms
And becomes part of who we are.

đź“– You Between Words
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Book link is in the comments. 👇🏻

Know that anyone can deceive you. Never become so certain of another person’s honesty that betrayal feels impossible. Hu...
30/10/2026

Know that anyone can deceive you. Never become so certain of another person’s honesty that betrayal feels impossible. Human beings are capable of both goodness and deceit, and the face that brings you comfort today may one day become the face you struggle to understand. Do not assume that kindness guarantees loyalty, that years of friendship guarantee honesty, or that love makes a person incapable of hurting you.

Trust is necessary, but blind trust is a weakness you must learn to overcome. Give people the freedom to prove who they are, but never become so attached to your image of them that you refuse to see the truth. Pay attention to actions, especially when they contradict words. Understand that people can change, intentions can shift, and even the strongest bonds can break under the weight of selfishness.

The purpose of this knowledge is not to make you suspicious of everyone. It is to make you prepared for anything. Do not allow the possibility of betrayal to destroy your ability to love, but never let your desire to believe in someone make you blind to their true nature. If someone deceives you, let the experience teach you, not imprison you. A wise man does not expect everyone to betray him, nor does he believe that anyone is incapable of doing so. He understands both possibilities and remains steady in either outcome.

Trust with an open heart, observe with a clear mind, and stand prepared for the truth, even when it hurts.

— Chamod Senevirathne
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“ You are allowed to become wiser without becoming harder. You are allowed to build boundaries without losing compassion...
30/10/2026

“ You are allowed to become wiser without becoming harder. You are allowed to build boundaries without losing compassion. You are allowed to walk away without becoming bitter. You can learn from what hurt you without allowing it to become your personality.

This does not mean remaining the same forever. Growth will change you. Experience should change you. Wisdom should change you. But there is a difference between changing because you have grown and changing because you have been wounded.
One makes you deeper.
The other makes you smaller.

So, protect the parts of yourself that deserve to survive every season. Keep your ability to love without becoming blind. Keep your courage without becoming reckless.

Keep your softness without becoming weak. Keep your standards without becoming cruel. Keep your heart open, but learn where it belongs.
The world may sometimes make you feel foolish for remaining good when goodness has not been returned to you.

Let it.

You do not need to become cruel simply because cruelty exists. You do not need to become dishonest because honest people have disappointed you.

You do not need to abandon your nature because someone failed to appreciate it.

Stay rooted.

Let experience sharpen you, not poison you.. “

đź“– One Hundred Truths

Book link is in the Comments 👇🏻

I carry you quietly in my thoughts,Some are born from your name,Some return to you when they end.You exist in the spaces...
29/10/2026

I carry you quietly in my thoughts,
Some are born from your name,
Some return to you when they end.
You exist in the spaces between my breaths,
Unannounced, yet always familiar.

And now I ask nothing for myself,
No promises, no returns.
Only that life is gentle with you,
That happiness finds you without effort,
And that peace stays where your heart rests.

Therefore, if my thoughts ever reach you,
Let them arrive without weight or sorrow.
Let them come as a quiet prayer,
Wishing you light in every step,
And a life that feels kind to your soul.

đź“– You Between words
By Chamod Senevirathne

Book link is in the comments 👇🏻

“ Walk away when your peace requires it.The people who truly belong in your life will not need you to perform a differen...
29/10/2026

“ Walk away when your peace requires it.
The people who truly belong in your life will not need you to perform a different version of yourself to keep them there.

They will see your imperfections without reducing you to them, and your strengths without demanding that you prove them.
Walk your path with quiet confidence. You do not need to announce your worth every time someone fails to recognize it.

You do not need to shrink so others feel comfortable, nor become louder simply to prove that you exist.
A warrior does not waste his strength chasing acceptance. He spends it becoming someone worthy of his own respect.

And when you can stand alone with the person you have become, the world's opinion becomes just that. An opinion. “

đź“– One Hundred Truths
By Chamod Senevirathne
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Book link is in the comments. 👇🏻👇🏻

I saw two cloudsmoving in the same directionyet apartIn their drifting shapesI found two facesone slowly turning toward ...
28/10/2026

I saw two clouds
moving in the same direction
yet apart

In their drifting shapes
I found two faces
one slowly turning toward the other

as if it longed to meet
as if it knew

but the wind never helped them

So, they kept going
under the same sky
toward the same horizon

together in path
yet forever separate.

—The Wind Never Helped Them
đź“– You between Words

Book link is in the comments.

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