A Broken Tales

PRELUDE

A reminder for everyone;

If it's hurting you, it's "not love" anyways.

Someone told me that before, but of course it is. Love always hurts, for some reasons and in different ways. Love can wound in the sense that love itself can heal. Love does hurt; that's why love is supposed to heal you. Love can break you over and over again, but love is supposed to fix and comfort you. Love is supposed to give you rest. Love can make your mom worry about you for going home late, but it can also make her sleep better at night knowing you're safe. Love is acceptance. Love is not always supposed to love you back. Love is sacrifice, even if it costs him giving up himself and his own dreams for you. "Love is a home," but a home can be vulnerable to a storm too. Pain is always part of love. And love is supposed to choose you every single day because love must be unconditional.

-$U Prēme

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Your worth isn't defined by how a person treats you. It isn't confined to the words thrown upon you, nor the way he or she acted when he's with you. You are valuable with or without their presence. Just because he treated you wrong doesn't mean you deserve it for being unworthy. It doesn't mean you lost your significance. It doesn't mean you dimmed your shine just because he failed to rejoice in your light.

Let them be if they choose to leave. Let them leave if they decide not to stay. Let them stay away if it means getting your peace back.

What you have to remember is in every choice they make, you are worthy, nevertheless.

- sohs. // worthy, nevertheless

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In relation to this collection, I'd like to recommend to read the book "All the Love you Carry" by Charis Ed .

Here's the description of the book:

Through the power of words composed in three parts, this collection of poetry and prose encourages us to honor love when it's found, grow from the pain when it's lost, and solidify self-love and resilience with the love already contained within our souls.

All The Love You Carry is a reminder of the interconnectedness of everything in our Universe through the wonder that is love. This book recognizes that love may just be the most powerful force our existence can ever experience and the most profound work of art we can ever create for others and ourselves. This book is for the souls yearning to assign love its truest definition. This book is for the hearts willing to journey within themselves to find healing.

This is just my own suggestion and opinion because for me, reading the book makes me realize something I'd never think before and helps me to let go the pain, move forward with my life and find the true happiness inside me.

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Maraming salamat po sa lahat ng nagbasa, tumulong at sumuporta sa paggawa ng librong ito.

To all the writers included in this compilation, thank you so much and more stories to come❣️

To all the readers and writers, let us all continue to support each other.

Until next time!