A Gentle Reminder

I hope you have the courage to go deeper. To never exist on the surface of your life, even if it’s easier or more convenient.

You are not afraid of being without it, because you know that you will always have yourself.

No one will ever fully be able to understand the internal battles you had to endure just to heal, just to grow, just to make it here today. Be proud of the way you fought to save yourself. Be proud of the way you survived.

But if you managed to find someone who cared for you, who saw you, who heard all of the horrible and haunted things you did in your life and still loved you harder, still thought it all shone like gold — that is special. You shouldn’t forget that. You should be thankful for it.

The bravest thing

you will ever do

is learn how to love

the things that made you.

hope you have 17

the courage to see endings as the cornerstones of the chapters that changed you without needing them to be a part of the rest of your story.

forgive yourself for the ways in which you didn’t fight for the person you were becoming.

Chase it — because you can, because you deserve to experience what is profound and remarkable in this world, because you are worthy of the things that make your chest tighten with happiness and wonder. Chase it, because you never know what is waiting for you on the other side of your comfort. You never know what is waiting for you on the other side of your hope.

No one will ever fully be able to understand the internal battles you had to endure just to heal, just to grow, just to make it here today.

not seek familiarity, do not keep searching for your past in your future. Trust what comes.