An Open Letter For You

Dear you,

Whoever you are and however you got here, just know that you got here. Maybe not safe nor free, but you got here, and this is exactly where you are supposed to be. There may be a thousand reasons why you are trying to run and hide so badly, but know this that you got here, and it is all because of you and no one else. I know how it feels when your monsters are trying to haunt you down and eat you alive, but they don’t have the power over you. You have the power over them. So, allow yourself to enjoy every moment that you get to have here.

You are scared of the “what ifs?” the “maybes” and the “what’s to come next?”, but just keep on living on the here and now. And someday when you are already filled to the brim with joy and happiness, you will no longer be scared of anything that haunts you. Just continue to live here and make it count in the process. 

I know you unloved yourself the very first moment they taught you how, and it has been a battle ever since. Open that love letter you wrote for yourself when you were a lot younger, when you still had that laugh that now you are ashamed of. Then, open every love letter that was sent to you, I hope the lot of it will make you realize that there is a whole lot of people out there who loves you even when you feel so unlovable. 

Take a rest when it is too hard for you, but don’t you dare give up. There is still a whole lot things waiting to happen for you, a whole lot of people you never got to meet, a whole lot of places you never got to see, and whole lot of challenges you need to accomplish. I know how hard it is to get out of bed every morning, but for the love of whoever is up there, please do, because nothing would be the same if you did not exist. Rise like a phoenix even when you are dead inside, and sing like the birds do in the stillness of life.

Make your craziest dream happen, because that is exactly what you are destined to do here. Preach every message that makes your heart beat, because a lot of people won’t get to see you here and a lot of people needs to see that you made it here. I know that you feel pain every single day, however, pain is inevitable but suffering is optional. You do not have to suffer for every pain that you feel inside, because a lot of people are there for you to share the burden with.

Breathe. It may seem hard on days where you feel like the world is on your shoulders, but just breathe. Everything will be okay, everything will fall on their right places, and you need not to worry about them. Trust. Even when it is the hardest thing to do, because I know that it will grant you the things that you deny for yourself. Love. As hard as you can and as long as you can, because that is the most beautiful thing that can happen to you in here. 

Love,

Niña Liza