Dear You,
It didn't happen overnight.
There were nights you cried yourself to sleep,59Please respect copyright.PENANAf0h81uCCW6
grieving things no one even knew you lost.59Please respect copyright.PENANAffAasyL3PR
You carried silent wars in your chest—59Please respect copyright.PENANAXVimEz9XSk
battles between forgiveness and remembering,59Please respect copyright.PENANAR8TOJ62Ug5
between who hurt you and who you were becoming.
For the longest time, you thought healing59Please respect copyright.PENANAt1jDx8WwQx
meant forgetting.59Please respect copyright.PENANAKSLk7K1tyA
That to move forward,59Please respect copyright.PENANAsRgO0zQBam
you had to erase everything that broke you.
But now, you know better.
You didn't forget.59Please respect copyright.PENANARFpET6Apaz
You didn't erase.59Please respect copyright.PENANAEuF3pG767X
You remembered—with softness.
You stopped asking why.59Please respect copyright.PENANAdTvHHpTm7c
You stopped waiting for the apology that would never come.59Please respect copyright.PENANAyGbe9YXn7c
You no longer needed closure in the form of their remorse.59Please respect copyright.PENANATLt4UU9SZH
Because the real closure59Please respect copyright.PENANAHsFjIJRFGh
was you choosing to stop bleeding59Please respect copyright.PENANAwIV6m1ti8d
from wounds they no longer cared to acknowledge.
You rewrote the stories they left unfinished.59Please respect copyright.PENANAKBjlFzOlPQ
You gave yourself the love they withheld.59Please respect copyright.PENANAWaBlguctb0
And most of all,59Please respect copyright.PENANALWrlv6hOY0
you stopped punishing yourself59Please respect copyright.PENANAinvUTQtYuk
for what you didn't know back then.
This isn't the kind of peace people applaud.59Please respect copyright.PENANA1Qqo8lQTWq
It's quiet.59Please respect copyright.PENANAjlutkCfnkq
It's subtle.59Please respect copyright.PENANAdTTrLknSyZ
But it's yours.59Please respect copyright.PENANAEbbpSH6bCb
And that makes it powerful.
You didn't forget your past.59Please respect copyright.PENANArT15g96eAc
You just stopped living in it.
With honor and release,59Please respect copyright.PENANAUqOljxMVZc
—The You Who Learned to Let Go
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