You Are So Much More Than That Failed Test. That Interview Gone Wrong, Your Relapse, The Missed Opportunities,

you are so much more than that failed test. that interview gone wrong, your relapse, the missed opportunities, the words you wish you could take back. you are not your mistakes. you're a person who's trying. there are so many opportunities to make things right. you'll get there, even if it takes a few more tries.

“My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.”

— Anaïs Nin

this forbes article from 2019 really sums it all up. no matter what happens we are still very proud of them

i’m realizing how much i desperately want to be in love and how terribly afraid i am to be, and these thoughts are coexisting chaotically now at 3:30am

“When you love someone you protect them from the pain, you don’t become the cause of it.”

— Unknown