Letters I Will Never Send - Letter 8:To the person who was always looking forward to being loved and accepted

Dear You Who Waited for Love Like It Was a Promise,361Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmhBwNHOuYr
#SilentLonging #HopefulHeart #NeverChosenStillHoping

You grew up with hope in your bones.361Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs3NQhWUOWX
Hope that someday, someone would see you—361Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsJugmBXkfX
not just glance, but really see you.361Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUYMUmOJ3DF
See the parts you tried to hide,361Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq4TVssarOh
the parts you molded to be easier to love.

You looked at every room and wondered,361Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡebGuHCGZpB
"Will I finally belong here?"361Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWTKhamcEYs
You entered every bond with trembling joy,361Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwGd4wzP1ke
thinking, maybe this time,361Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEfYLD6yjwR
maybe I won't have to try so hard.

But love didn't arrive in the ways you imagined.361Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡONtPCqACgN
It was always distant,361Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡovNLluxvEc
conditional,361Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNJlB1egbQJ
just out of reach.

You changed yourself to fit expectations361Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUoaLMyWYoY
that kept shifting.361Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQa9BFZAIoT
Smiled through being overlooked.361Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡohS9fjLDsa
Stayed quiet when your heart wanted to scream,361Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ84W995eX1
"Choose me. Stay. Please stay."

You romanticized scraps of kindness361Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH1B2WbeOcc
and built entire futures out of maybe's.361Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAh1NyD6tOq
Because deep down,361Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4emcAsexF6
you believed that being loved361Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoSGSzR5z0P
meant being enough.

But the truth is—361Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxk4eStOQE9
you were always enough.361Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3IUEzmUl5o
Even when no one clapped.361Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx5CwQdOtnX
Even when you weren't picked.361Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM2ehy4oaN7
Even when your silence echoed louder than your presence.

You were not unlovable.361Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4nPe7I7Gym
You were just waiting for people361Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKX0J5B2x5R
who couldn't meet you where you needed.

It was never about your worth.361Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXNSdxVg7tU
Only about their capacity.

And one day—maybe not yet,361Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqBERCr8QwX
but someday soon—361Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj5SwzvwltC
you'll stop waiting for the love that never came361Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpuCwJ613Ey
and realize that you can be the one361Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6VzmtbFL2J
who finally gives it361Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡohDuyX7aK9
to yourself.

You'll belong—361Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxft8Jk2bQb
not because someone else lets you in,361Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeuS6XactMO
but because you stopped shrinking361Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDQ1u2yMebk
to fit in places that never knew how to hold you.

You are love,361Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqRYaec33yt
even when no one says it back.

—From the version of you who no longer waits to be chosen

361Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN4wB1Obcsu

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