Bitter Sweet Truth✔

Just so you know-

I know you're having a hard day, or a hard month, or maybe even a hard year.

And I know that sometimes it's much easier to let your mind be consumed by the hard stuff than it is to focus on what is good in this world.

But for two minutes, while you read this, I want you to try your absolute hardest to focus on the good.

I want you to realize that you don't have to do anything at all to be worthy of goodness.

I want you to know that you are so valuable and so very loved, and that feeling bad or low doesn't negotiate how special you are.

I want you to know that you are going to be okay one day soon, because the universe has your back.

I want you to know that feeling bad doesn't make you a bad person.

And I want you to know that sometimes the lows are what lead us to the highest highs.

So next time you are crying, or being too hard on yourself, I want you to take a deep breath in and realize that you don't have to bully yourself.

You don't have to make yourself feel bad.

It's okay to be gentle.

It's okay to forgive yourself and it's okay to let yourself rest when you don't know which direction to go.

I want you to learn that you don't have to do anything or earn anything to be worth a thousand stars.

You are worth all of the stars in the sky by just being alive, by just being yourself.

And I know that you are focused on your mistakes and your letdowns.

I know you are focused on what is lacking in your life rather than on what is abundant.

And because of this, I want you to know that you are worth a million times more than your failures and mistakes, and that you made it through to today and for that you are courageous.

It doesn't matter if you fall down over and over again.

You eventually will get back up.

And I know you think that everybody else around you is more successful or more loved.

We are all living our own stories.

We are all writing and constructing our own plot lines.

You can't compare a sci-fi novel to a romance book.

So why compare your life to anyone else's?

Why compare your beauty to anyone else's?

I want you to know that you are just as beautiful as every other soul on this earth, because you have your own sparkle in your eyes, and your own smiles that resemble no others.

And I want you to know that whether you have one friend or fifteen friends, you are likeable and loveable, and you should never doubt it.

I want you to know that it's okay to feel down sometimes.

You don't need to make up for it or fix it.

Sometimes you just have to be there in the moment and live through it.

But I do hope that if you are having a hard time, you can forgive yourself and share a little love with yourself.

I hope you can see that you aren't doing anything wrong.

And for these two minutes, I hope you have remembered how marvelously special you are, and how much this little green and blue planet needs someone just like you.

Just like you need you.