Dear You, Who Finally Stopped Shrinking,
There came a day when you no longer begged to be chosen.42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcXk7IYlt8f
Not by him.42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM2tQ1q1IfQ
Not by friends.42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPfUbf07HgP
Not even by the world that kept asking you to play small just to be loved.
That day didn't arrive with fireworks or fanfare.42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMHqOUz0iwn
It was quiet.42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgKSJpy6lCg
It looked like you sitting in silence,42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWdcj11jjjR
refusing to text back.42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHEaqFY2RPF
It looked like you walking away without trying to explain.42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAIysddAfrg
It looked like sleeping peacefully after crying for nights on end.
Choosing yourself wasn't loud.42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6OLGKjLUGy
It wasn't some dramatic, revolutionary act.42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgEs4bUvUR0
It was simply—enough.42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1k1HEdZQ0A
Enough bending.42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGoLdHwVyBq
Enough waiting.42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVYJGQYxdnm
Enough sacrificing parts of yourself just to make others comfortable.
I know it wasn't easy.42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLHZkPnOay2
Because choosing yourself meant disappointing people who were used to you bleeding for them.42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcKZHfoQENG
It meant grieving identities you outgrew,42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2gbWVDiEux
and walking into unknowns with nothing but self-trust in your pocket.
But you did it.42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzJPwBM3jqr
You said, "I matter too."42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrWcv600jzG
You finally believed it.
And everything started to change.
Your standards shifted.42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxTgTO8o5T6
Your silence turned into boundaries.42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡla0fnvJWgt
You stopped romanticizing potential and started honoring reality.42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcSqI7qn0qa
And love?42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTGdQ2uTG9O
You began defining it not by what you could give,42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcZjxw2dBog
but by what you no longer had to lose.
You were no longer waiting to be saved—42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvIyZJPSRcj
you were finally showing up for yourself.
That moment?42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiuVl9oG2DD
That choice?42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtLun5prcam
That is what healed you.
So to the version of me who chose herself42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEsqssfAAxQ
—maybe for the first time,42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHN5kLAVaup
maybe after a lifetime of forgetting how—42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdj0Xm43Iey
I'm proud of you.
You didn't just rise.42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCD7z8P56cX
You returned to yourself.42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6EEyEBANE3
And that's the real miracle.
—Always yours,42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMLBNjYHV5t
The woman who finally feels whole
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