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,36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaKM2RQd8Lp
#SilentLonging #HopefulHeart #NeverChosenStillHoping

You grew up with hope in your bones.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuvyF7OzVbc
Hope that someday, someone would see you—36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHRLk0MhIkZ
not just glance, but really see you.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFcw6GSsZWn
See the parts you tried to hide,36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRipvoSaZMf
the parts you molded to be easier to love.

You looked at every room and wondered,36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ83L13Irtgk
"Will I finally belong here?"36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb5EIiM489f
You entered every bond with trembling joy,36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6RSJ6ueggs
thinking, maybe this time,36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgTi5nymIrE
maybe I won't have to try so hard.

But love didn't arrive in the ways you imagined.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMoVTrPlvmS
It was always distant,36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1BmQnVb9qL
conditional,36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMUsV7PdTaR
just out of reach.

You changed yourself to fit expectations36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYVa10xzhyB
that kept shifting.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4aLBp1dKcN
Smiled through being overlooked.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUtaQ8gihrT
Stayed quiet when your heart wanted to scream,36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrzy6rDZCol
"Choose me. Stay. Please stay."

You romanticized scraps of kindness36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvBPDIjEsNo
and built entire futures out of maybe's.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSHQPgjJORT
Because deep down,36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkfDoRjhYP3
you believed that being loved36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5zYglOXfJf
meant being enough.

But the truth is—36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡumtnHpwiSD
you were always enough.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy7O8WtZDZI
Even when no one clapped.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDh394PR3B7
Even when you weren't picked.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVe6yqUXTuH
Even when your silence echoed louder than your presence.

You were not unlovable.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFnC418xVu2
You were just waiting for people36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3MG8pAf3hZ
who couldn't meet you where you needed.

It was never about your worth.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIjCDwkUgxk
Only about their capacity.

And one day—maybe not yet,36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlsBu6X31jB
but someday soon—36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4uVuThpeQ6
you'll stop waiting for the love that never came36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlmo1jFRa62
and realize that you can be the one36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5Es5eAzdwT
who finally gives it36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGN5aM1p3Pt
to yourself.

You'll belong—36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkRDnnLfx4r
not because someone else lets you in,36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPbOPEXKyUy
but because you stopped shrinking36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4UUqBD00u4
to fit in places that never knew how to hold you.

You are love,36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnqabbcI3hw
even when no one says it back.

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

36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrQguLvosvJ

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