Sometimes choosing peace is the bravest thing a person can do. It’s not always soft, quiet, or graceful. Sometimes peace begins as a breaking — a boundary you finally set, a truth you can no longer ignore, a storm you walk straight into because your soul is begging for something better. Peace doesn’t always look calm at first. Sometimes it’s messy. Sometimes it’s loud. Sometimes it uproots everything you thought you needed. But in the end, it becomes the very thing that frees you — the thing tha