If no one told you this today, I am proud of who you are becoming.
Sometimes we need others to speak what they see in us because we don't truly see it within ourselves. We don't see our own potential. We see our pasts, we see our wounds, we see all of the stories and the narratives life has placed inside of our minds. We see our anxiety, or our overthinking, or the way we care so deeply as if it were a weakness within us. We see all of the things we have yet to do, all of the things around us that others have and we don't. We compare ourselves, we aren't gentle with ourselves or our journey or the way we are fighting to become the kind of human being that we ourselves are proud of.
Sometimes, we need to be reminded that we are deserving of everything we desire from life. That nothing in our past makes us unworthy of our future. That there is beauty in working towards healing, and growing, and becoming the kind of person who adds light and hope into this world, in even the smallest of ways. I see how hard you are trying. And I want you to know that I am proud of you for that. To want to be a better person is such an intensely beautiful thing. To want to be better in this world, to want to love more, care more, do more with your time here - that is special. And you deserve to believe in the goodness that is waiting for you on the other side of your healing. You deserve to believe that there is beauty out there for you, that the things that are meant to find you, and stay, are going to come into your life; that you are going to be in awe of your life, that you are going to discover your own version of happiness. So this is your reminder.