Loving yourself is getting out of your comfort zone even when it’s scary. It’s going to that party when you know no one. It’s chatting up that cute guy or girl that keeps eyeing you. It’s making a new friend and feeling all at once like you are understood. It’s deciding to follow your intuition even when it’s terrifying.
It doesn’t matter the severity of the assault. Taylor Swift was grabbed from her behind, and I was touched deep inside of me. But we are the same. Because our bodies were violated. Our bodies all of a sudden, weren’t in control anymore.
In 2018, I will continue to grow and to love myself despite mistakes and faults. I’ve never been good at making mistakes. It makes me want to bathe in my own guilt and want to disappear forever, hiding out of shame. But, maybe in 2018, I can learn a healthier way to deal with failure. In 2018, maybe I can learn how to turn my mistakes into something bigger and better.
Stop beating yourself every time you gain a few pounds. Instead, learn how to appreciate your body for all that it does for you. And please realize that your weight is just a number. Nothing more.
Stop letting people walk all over you. Know your own worth. Know your brilliance. You will only find love, when you ultimately love yourself.
Don’t let this person dictate you. Don’t let this person make you feel like you are nothing. Don’t let this person control how you see your self. And don’t ever let anybody make you feel like you are worthless.
She stopped replying back to you because she realized that she was nothing to you. She realized that you didn’t really care. And you never did.
It makes me so angry that after you ended it, I still liked you. It makes me so angry that after you ended it, I couldn’t hate you. I couldn’t even write bad things about you.
You once called me for over three hours. You told me you were an honest person and you never lied. And then you said the real kicker, you promised you would never hurt me. And I believed you.
We are too eager for a quick fix. For a warm body to lay next to at night. And just as easily, we are all too quick to go, to leave, and to run. We run from the one thing that we keep saying that we truly want.