The Strength In Our Scars

You are the one
who built your walls.

Don’t ever doubt for a second
that you have the capacity
to tear them down.

The things that hurt you
may have left scars,
but they did not destroy you.
You survived,
and there is hope in that.

Sometimes, the greatest act of self-love is simply allowing yourself to be loved by others. Sometimes, the greatest act of self-love is simply allowing yourself to be seen in all that you are.

Someone who wants to support you, and encourage you. Someone who gives you just as much effort as you give them.

Forgiveness has always been about learning how to accept the things you cannot change. Forgiveness has always been about learning how to befriend your past rather than making it an enemy.

I hope you learn how to love yourself the way you love others—unconditionally and without hesitation; deeply

They will understand that the past broke you, and built you, and left you to navigate the mess of what it means to be a human that has loved and lost and trusted with every inch of their being.

Even if the love was wrong, to someone who loves deeply, no amount of loving is a waste, no amount of taking is too much. They live to give.

People who love deeply never forget—they are tattooed with the goodbyes of everyone they never got the chance to shine for.

People who love deeply have a hard time leaving because they can never quite convince themselves that they need to walk away from someone they know they can help. They will never stop trying to love someone into their potential, will never stop falling for the echo of “what if” in another human being.