When Your Heart Is Wide Open in a Guarded World
- Jascey Cents
- Oct 14
- 2 min read
A love letter to the ones who feel too deeply, care too much, and refuse to harden.
By Jacent Voigt founder of JasceyCents
Some people love like breathing.
They don’t measure it, they don’t hold back, they just give, fully, freely, instinctively. They are the ones who ask, “Did you make it home safe?” The ones who sense sadness in your silence. The ones who will still check on you, even when you’ve forgotten their last message.
If that’s you, this letter is for you.
Because being open in a guarded world is not easy.
It’s being told you’re “too sensitive” when all you did was care.
It’s showing up with your whole heart and watching people flinch at the sight of real emotion.
It’s trying to love in a language the world forgot how to speak.
You give without calculation, and sometimes it leaves you drained, not because love is wrong,
but because not everyone is capable of receiving it at the depth you offer.
You’ve probably told yourself to stop feeling so much.
You’ve tried to build walls, to mirror the cool distance around you.
But you can’t.
Because that’s not who you are.
You were made to connect, to see beyond words, to bring warmth into cold spaces.
That is your gift and yes, sometimes your ache.
I know what it’s like to live between cultures, to be called open in one and “too much” in another.
To be celebrated for your energy and then quietly criticized for the same thing.
To feel misunderstood simply because you don’t know how to pretend.
But please remember this: openness is not exposure.
You don’t owe the world every piece of your story.
You can love deeply and still keep parts of yourself sacred.
You can be soft and still have boundaries.
Being open doesn’t mean being available to everyone.
It means being true, even when truth makes you stand alone.
Yes, the world is guarded.
People protect what’s broken, mask what’s real, hide what hurts.
But please, don’t let that make you hard.
You can learn to protect your peace without losing your warmth.
You can set limits without dimming your light.
Keep showing up, heart-first.
Keep loving, even if it echoes back quietly sometimes.
Keep feeling, even when it would be easier not to.
Because your softness is sacred.
It’s rare.
It’s needed.
And somewhere out there, someone is praying to meet a soul like yours,
the kind that listens, that heals, that reminds them it’s safe to be human again.
So don’t shut down. Don’t shrink.
Be open, but aware.
Be kind, but firm.
Be gentle, but grounded.
The world doesn’t need more guarded hearts.
It needs more hearts like yours.
Author’s Note
Written by JasceyCents, for the ones who feel deeply, love fully, and still choose softness.
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