Dear You, Who Finally Stopped Shrinking,
There came a day when you no longer begged to be chosen.50Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgcJW89rOfe
Not by him.50Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjYZ2OLvHRS
Not by friends.50Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpER0aR2hKG
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.50Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgchklUgvTZ
It was quiet.50Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxHtYcNLfB8
It looked like you sitting in silence,50Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtVvd3I8Ar5
refusing to text back.50Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡciP2xOzI0w
It looked like you walking away without trying to explain.50Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRzv7JnAxcF
It looked like sleeping peacefully after crying for nights on end.
Choosing yourself wasn't loud.50Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT9owZnrIWU
It wasn't some dramatic, revolutionary act.50Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDbQ9rCys7V
It was simply—enough.50Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJDIDNcEPwx
Enough bending.50Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgVLB8TLqoz
Enough waiting.50Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3Go3cXqULA
Enough sacrificing parts of yourself just to make others comfortable.
I know it wasn't easy.50Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJfQN4Lgwey
Because choosing yourself meant disappointing people who were used to you bleeding for them.50Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGA2E9vWV4x
It meant grieving identities you outgrew,50Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3vc4MO3Rv7
and walking into unknowns with nothing but self-trust in your pocket.
But you did it.50Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLZhEQSEivL
You said, "I matter too."50Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡakRfnOM3z4
You finally believed it.
And everything started to change.
Your standards shifted.50Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKETDefHgeY
Your silence turned into boundaries.50Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcQdpRtegct
You stopped romanticizing potential and started honoring reality.50Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJYjyq3egGN
And love?50Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvLwOxClpsc
You began defining it not by what you could give,50Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtSdY1lGMKD
but by what you no longer had to lose.
You were no longer waiting to be saved—50Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxDCSr33bmP
you were finally showing up for yourself.
That moment?50Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRUHlcvyDPP
That choice?50Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPkCCkQz22c
That is what healed you.
So to the version of me who chose herself50Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeJwhIOo8Wl
—maybe for the first time,50Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYBCOg4F9AG
maybe after a lifetime of forgetting how—50Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZqpA36oBLQ
I'm proud of you.
You didn't just rise.50Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaAsRqm4crd
You returned to yourself.50Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOzEFQWzSuR
And that's the real miracle.
—Always yours,50Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡonzI9PPO3I
The woman who finally feels whole
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and then Add to home screen.