When you look back it's funny to see how strong you can be without even knowing you were being so. How much effort you can put into trying to make something work, making yourself happy doing things that make you unhappy, continuously trying to be someone else. When really if you had stepped back you would have seen the problem.
You can't change someone else you can only control your own life. You can't love and respect someone that doesn't want it and you cannot be loved if you don't love yourself and think you are worth loving.
At some points on this new journey you will be lonely, tired, sad and angry. But while you are being all of those things and more, remember to be proud. You made a choice, you decided that you are good enough, worth more than being bored, depressed, suppressed and downtrodden. You didn't want that to be your story.
Be anything you want. You only get one shot at all of this. Be slutty, fun, bubbly, confident and nice. Just be you, because hiding who you are is not worth the effort it takes.
When you fuck up or feel stupid and people judge you, look at them and think is this person really any better than me? Hold your head up high, smile and remember, you are breathing, living and alive. That is more than you have been or have wanted in the past. You have made it through worse and you are still standing.
Let your love, happiness and joy be your revenge on the world. Do all the things you have been told you can't and be all the things you've always wanted to be.
You are free! x
