Let People Love You!
I’m going to say it again: let people love you. I don’t know if that sounds like a simple sentiment to all of you, but, for me, it was something that sounded simple but did NOT sound easy. I would get in my own way when it came to friendships, choosing to believe that I wasn’t worthy of being surrounded by amazing people. I’d try to only show the “good” parts of myself, so that people would like me better.
This Is a Shoutout to My Ex
I have learned to have immense gratitude for a relationship that did not last. If it had, I wouldn’t have been so invested in learning how to love myself. God knows why we wait to learn how to love ourselves when it feels like our survival depends on it, when it feels like if we don’t choose radical self love, our world might just cave in. But I’ve noticed, in myself and in others, we often wait until we are so sick and tired of feeling incomplete before we finally fill our own damn cup.
18 Things I’ve Learned From the First 18 Years of My life
BROUGHT TO YOU BY ARCHIVED JOURNAL ENTRIES, THE PEOPLE AND PLACES WHO HAVE SHAPED ME, AND MY DETERMINATION TO LIVE OUT AND TELL MY OWN “COMING OF AGE” STORY.