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We have to forgive ourselves for having the self-awareness to change our minds about the really big things.
The things you did to keep yourself alive when you didn’t know any better way.
The person you tried to get it right with so hard that it felt like your heart was going to give up on beating, but who eventually had to let go. You cannot force love into existence. And letting it bloom somewhere else only makes us all freer in the end.
you are always going to be just perfectly you enough and the moment you realize how important that it, the sooner you can let the rest go.
We all get overwhelmed sometimes. We all forget how to deal. We need these times to re-group, to reflect, to re-create ourselves and figure out where to go next. We are stronger for having gone through these breaks, despite what they felt like at the time. We figured out how to bounce back harder.
The chances you didn’t take The places you never travelled to. The experiences you didn’t have. The person you did not chase after when they decided to walk away. We have to unclasp our palms and let go of every alternate reality where we’re happier, stronger, brighter because of all the things we did differently. Those universes do not exist.
Except we don’t live our lives in retrospect. We live them forward.
The mistakes you haven’t even made yet
The day we stop making mistakes is the day we stop living.
You need to be alone when you are not at home with yourself.
When you want someone else to come and hold you close just to distract you from yourself, you need to learn to hold your own hand. We can love one another but nobody can save us from ourselves and when we don’t understand that in the slightest, we need to be alone the most.
You need to be alone when you’re unhappy with yourself.
You have to learn to be the person who saves you.
When every new beginning is just another reminder of each painful ending that preceded it, you are not ready to start over.
The person you’re going to fall in love with deserves all your beginnings and none of your endings and if you’re still torn up about the past and it is bleeding straight into the future, it might mean that you need more time to heal.
