Good Feeling

For when peace finally stops feeling foreign

There you are again.
Same body.
New quiet.

No storm.
No story.
Just breath moving like it’s learning a song it used to know.

The world hasn’t changed much.
The dishes are still in the sink.
The sky still forgets your name by morning.
But something inside you isn’t reaching for rescue anymore.

That’s what healing really is, isn’t it?
Not fireworks.
Not closure.
Just the slow permission to stop bracing.

You don’t need anyone to prove they love you.
You can feel it in the air now—
thin, invisible, constant—
like oxygen.

You’re not checking your phone.
You’re not rehearsing what you’ll say if they pull away.
You’re just here.
Present.
Whole enough to stop waiting for permission to be whole.

“And I get a good feeling…”
The Violent Femmes whisper it like a benediction.
It’s not joy that floods in—
it’s quiet recognition.
A reminder that peace was never outside you.
You just stopped running long enough to feel it.

Maybe that’s what the ache was trying to teach all along.
Not how to hold tighter,
but how to let go without disappearing.

You still notice tone.
Still sense distance.
But now it doesn’t shake you.
You can tell the difference between danger and space.
Between silence and absence.

That’s growth—
when calm doesn’t feel suspicious anymore.

You can miss someone and not lose yourself.
You can love without needing to perform survival.
You can trust that if it’s real, it won’t vanish when you rest.

Feel that?
The hum under your ribs.
That’s the world making room for you.
That’s your nervous system finally believing it’s safe to stay.

You earned this stillness.
You built it one breath at a time.
Every pause.
Every cry.
Every tiny decision to come back to your body.

You are not waiting for love anymore.
You are in it.

So let the song play.
Let the line linger.
Let yourself have the good feeling
without apology, without proof, without fear.

Because this—
this is the life that comes after the ache.
The one you whisper thank you to.
The one you finally know how to stay inside of.

// Scorpio Veil