This Was Meant To Find You: When You Needed It Most

by Charlotte Freeman

the opportunities and people you lose along the way are the stepping-stones paving your way to your happiest self, your truest love, your most genuine purpose.

You deserve to receive the kind of love that makes your heart feel calm, assured, and secure. You deserve to feel the kind of love you have always dreamed about. You deserve the same energy that you give.

Beautiful things are coming, please keep your heart open to them, and above all, please believe that you are worthy of it all.

I promise you that your feelings, your anxiety, and your trauma are not a burden to the ones who love you and I promise you that you are capable of giving and receiving love despite it all.

Let go of one-sided relationships.

Let go of anything that is making your soul feel heavy, let go of anything that is making your heart feel burnt out and your mind feel tired, let go of anything that is making you feel like you do not deserve more. Please believe that you deserve to feel free of all the things you’re carrying that were never actually yours to hold onto. Because you deserve to breathe without burden and feel happiness without the fear of someone taking it away from you once more.

Wait for a love that feels exactly as you always thought it would, wait for a love that feels like something you haven’t felt before. Wait for a love that is calm, a love that doesn’t consume you, but encourages you to grow. Wait for a love that doesn’t make you question yourself or your future. Wait for a love that holds your heart gently, because you deserve the softest kind of love. —Because what a beautiful moment it is when you realize that your heart is capable of healing again even after it has been broken.

The past is in the past for a reason. If something was absolutely meant for you, it wouldn’t now be in your past and you wouldn’t be questioning it, you’d just know. Trust that. Think forwards, move forwards, always.

Existing As You Are Embrace everything that you are right now and accept all the things that you are not. You are under no obligation to be anybody other than who you are. You are under no obligation to reinvent yourself for anybody. You are under no obligation to be someone else’s idea of perfection. You see, something that you should never forget is that the best version of you is the one that isn’t trying to be something or someone else. The best version of you is the one that makes you feel whole, complete, content, just by existing. The best version of you, is you.

Be there for yourself and let yourself feel, because letting yourself feel is how you heal.

Don’t strive for perfection, instead strive for gaining experience, for learning new things and stepping outside of your comfort zone.

Challenge yourself, give life a go, leave this unrealistic idea of perfection behind and accept that some chapters in your life are there to get you to the next one.

Everything’s better when it comes from your heart, a dreamland of honesty and integrity. A place of originality and imagination, where ideas are born. Everything’s better when intentions are pure and there is no fear of vulnerability. Everything’s better when you let the ideas flow from within and let them inspire you instead of scare you. Let yourself dream as big as you can dream, because dreams are just the beginning. And without them, what are you living for?

One of the most heartbreaking ways to damage your confidence and destroy your gratitude is to live each day comparing your life with everyone else’s. If you are looking for the answers in anyone other other than yourself, then you are looking in the wrong place. What you do is enough, what you have is enough, who you are is enough. Look inward, focus on yourself and your achievements, worry less about the outside noise. Dream big, but don’t let your thoughts wander so far away from you that you get stuck and place unrealistic expectations upon yourself.