Wish Someone Genuinely Liked Me For Once - Tumblr Posts

I once thanked you for teaching me to be more self-reliant, for helping guide me along the path of growth. I won't deny it's a lesson I needed to learn. But I question now if it had to be done so harshly, if there had been a way that wasn't as barbed, that didn't cut as deep.

My parents started that lesson early, that learning was painful. That questions were bad. That I am wrong. That I am not wanted the way that I am. That I need to be better. And I used to think that maybe I'm just difficult, maybe they're forced to teach me the hard way.

I suppose I might never know the answer. But I wonder if I could have still learned those lessons in a gentler way, if someone had been kinder.