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Dear You,  I just want to say hi. I hope you're doing fine. I hope that everything is going well in your life. I want you to know that I am proud of you. I am proud of the way you handle things lately, especially the hard situations in your life. I am so proud that, despite all the uncertainties, you still chose to live. You are a fighter for doing that.  Know that you don't have to achieve anything big to say that you are proud of yourself. Be proud of all the things, big or small, that you are able to achieve. I know how hard you try every single day just to fight the battles inside yourself that no one knows about. I know that each day you do your best to not kill anyone. Just kidding. But seriously, I know that you do your best and with all your might just to be nice to everyone you encounter. You don't want to hurt anyone. You just want to spread kindness and positivity to everyone that you meet. It's just that you cannot really avoid people who seem to test your p

It's nice to be treated special every once in a while. I mean, who wouldn't want to feel like a queen, even if you aren't living in a palace? But there are times when the treatment doesn't feel good anymore. Perhaps you feel like it's not genuine. It's forced. Or sometimes, you feel like they do it out of pity. Personally, it feels weird to be treated special. Sometimes I feel like I don't deserve the "spotlight." Like, my own food differs from everyone else's. There are times when other people walk on eggshells around me. Because they don't want to hurt my feelings, or that's what they think. They think that I'm too fragile to handle the truth or that I'm not capable of handling difficult situations. But from my point of view, I feel so out of place every time they do that. I feel ignored. I feel neglected. I feel like I'm still a little kid. The irony is that people treat me as a child, but they expect me to act like an ad

There comes a point in our lives when we decide to move forward. Sometimes we feel trapped in our emotions. There are times when we realize that letting go is the most needed decision that we have to make. And often times, moving forward is better than staying where you are. Moving forward isn't always that easy. You have to take the route that, at times, will crush you. You're not yet willing to leave what you've been holding on to. Somehow, you still hope that when you stay, things will change on their own. Sometimes holding on provides us with self-satisfaction. We are willing to endure the pain. Odd as it may seem, pain makes us connected to the person or the moment. That's why we're not ready to let go just yet. Once we decide to move forward, it doesn't mean that we're totally forgetting everything. It simply means that we no longer want to be prisoners of our emotions. We want to be free and let go of everything that weighs us down. We don't want

With a new beginning comes the promise of hope. Hope that things will be better. Hope that things will change for the better. Hope that a new beginning will create new opportunities.  Oftentimes, the beginning is the hardest. It means you have to step into the unknown. You have to go back to square one. There are some who have to start from scratch. There is no manual available to read on how to navigate. You just have to figure everything out as you go along the way. And with a new beginning comes change. That's why some people hate to begin. A new beginning means you have to let go of the old. You have to deal with change. You have to be open to new possibilities. You have to embrace the uncertainty. But you have to trust the magic of a new beginning. You have to believe that something wonderful is going to happen. You have to believe that what lies ahead is better than what you left behind. Just like every time the sun rises, it's a promise of a new day. It's another cha