the unabridged reader

Your heart will break many times. You’ll cry yourself to sleep for many nights. You’ll cry in the middle of doing your chores. You’ll break down in the most random times.  You’ll feel wronged, because you gave your all. You’ll feel worthless, because you were left alone.

At night, when sleep won’t come, and your thoughts are full regrets and why’s; when you stifle your sobs to hide from the world your scars; when breathing becomes a struggle, and you feel so overcome; be kind.

Be kind to yourself. It’s hard to move on from a glorified past, and it’s poisonous to be filled with hate and doubt. So think of yourself, focus on your strengths. Think of the things you can improve, think of the things that boosts your mood.

Pick up the things you dropped in the past, rediscover the things you used to love. You can also discover new things, or old things you haven’t noticed before. You can be independent and strong, without you knowing. Because your eyes were focused on that just one thing. Now, the world is wider, the lens is clearer. So be kind to yourself, be kind to the world.

Change is constant, it’s the only thing that is. Let the hurt in, and go through it. Because in every season of your life, you’ll inevitably meet. But be kind to yourself because if you don’t, you’ll get stuck. And it’s a horrible, suffocating experience, to be stuck in a past that nothing and no one can redeem.

Stay in the present, have hope for the future. You overcame it before, you can overcome it again.