Love Yourself

01 | her story

01 | her story

My name is Lucy Heartfilia, also known as Lucy, the weird girl in school.

I would like to talk about my story.

I was born in the Captial of Fiore, it was a beautiful, peaceful town. A town full of flowers and an annual flower festival each year. I had a happy childhood there, and I was just an ordinary girl who had a liking in stars and flowers.

Speaking of stars, I used to gaze at them every night, wishing to have magical powers and become a superhero that saves people from danger. I was such an imaginative child, full of dreams and wonders.

But that's when all of my happiness stopped—when I entered my sixth-grade, that's when people started judging my imaginations, dreams, and my wonders. Upon entering seventh-grade, I started to worry about what peoplethought of me. I started seeing myself through their eyes. I stopped looking up at the night skies, the stars. I stopped daydreaming. Instead, I just tried to jam myself into the molds that other people made. 

I tried to be the person they wanted me to be, a perfect, flawless, talented, smart girl. I tried and tried, not realising that I began to shut out my own voice and started listening to what other's would say.

No one called out my name, and neither did I. My heart stopped, and my eyes closed shut.

I was so hopless back then, I felt lost—I felt as if I didn't fit the world. Right there and then, I wanted things to end. But then, I met him.