Dear You, Who Finally Stopped Shrinking,
There came a day when you no longer begged to be chosen.40Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxbcdmVXLFd
Not by him.40Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ9tNVTXZs7
Not by friends.40Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkfhYAzHr9R
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.40Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpMmNTIZHID
It was quiet.40Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1Ixqo9DQXr
It looked like you sitting in silence,40Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDwnccmmcvd
refusing to text back.40Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNtMcJpV13W
It looked like you walking away without trying to explain.40Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY6TwsBFjTv
It looked like sleeping peacefully after crying for nights on end.
Choosing yourself wasn't loud.40Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5C81ip42lU
It wasn't some dramatic, revolutionary act.40Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVL9NB6P0LI
It was simply—enough.40Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuneSSQnbMY
Enough bending.40Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYVKZc65pSG
Enough waiting.40Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKrjjdUKMIn
Enough sacrificing parts of yourself just to make others comfortable.
I know it wasn't easy.40Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvW1emJzKFH
Because choosing yourself meant disappointing people who were used to you bleeding for them.40Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ14bTfm21md
It meant grieving identities you outgrew,40Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnhJmcsF4d1
and walking into unknowns with nothing but self-trust in your pocket.
But you did it.40Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡat0nIfk7Ou
You said, "I matter too."40Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKYdI9ukHHo
You finally believed it.
And everything started to change.
Your standards shifted.40Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaKMjxSq0BV
Your silence turned into boundaries.40Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq6ELLTrV5h
You stopped romanticizing potential and started honoring reality.40Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLUAOkFGldD
And love?40Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUoAByPLe7N
You began defining it not by what you could give,40Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa8HRB7r1hA
but by what you no longer had to lose.
You were no longer waiting to be saved—40Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe9siZifvJs
you were finally showing up for yourself.
That moment?40Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXPqX9lTXsq
That choice?40Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiF40VJ98P2
That is what healed you.
So to the version of me who chose herself40Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwwNjcyfxZq
—maybe for the first time,40Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAiIFvBFj9z
maybe after a lifetime of forgetting how—40Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsncj6dEDEB
I'm proud of you.
You didn't just rise.40Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRrWEFLqMvg
You returned to yourself.40Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoPBahpy9Ib
And that's the real miracle.
—Always yours,40Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjeo3NdoPGK
The woman who finally feels whole
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