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,41Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJSRA4hboKy
#SilentLonging #HopefulHeart #NeverChosenStillHoping

You grew up with hope in your bones.41Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwFKAscufjB
Hope that someday, someone would see you—41Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnzrGoARnyz
not just glance, but really see you.41Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw8CavwJpDJ
See the parts you tried to hide,41Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSakyYquCcB
the parts you molded to be easier to love.

You looked at every room and wondered,41Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRTM3N8dQJt
"Will I finally belong here?"41Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkA4uDMZDoT
You entered every bond with trembling joy,41Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBKOvMZmnrE
thinking, maybe this time,41Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzxYYdj39Gl
maybe I won't have to try so hard.

But love didn't arrive in the ways you imagined.41Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwQUJ5vNebE
It was always distant,41Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCI8u2Z9DJu
conditional,41Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy6fW3ZsgCP
just out of reach.

You changed yourself to fit expectations41Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNBjGIYOB8V
that kept shifting.41Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh9EmTtrlaH
Smiled through being overlooked.41Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1ZH1C2NhYO
Stayed quiet when your heart wanted to scream,41Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqOZybbFHJ3
"Choose me. Stay. Please stay."

You romanticized scraps of kindness41Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTEm7xvg7e0
and built entire futures out of maybe's.41Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ717iib28HG
Because deep down,41Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgvuvewZNri
you believed that being loved41Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb1ikDVXYBk
meant being enough.

But the truth is—41Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAjjz4Da2Mc
you were always enough.41Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzlQuUyiKTZ
Even when no one clapped.41Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2vLZvV7r7T
Even when you weren't picked.41Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyfsZdSZLb9
Even when your silence echoed louder than your presence.

You were not unlovable.41Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjKEJNfKXGP
You were just waiting for people41Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUNcgH8ohKb
who couldn't meet you where you needed.

It was never about your worth.41Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYi0lsmgAlg
Only about their capacity.

And one day—maybe not yet,41Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAN8V9Wf63y
but someday soon—41Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJdGcuPfvAf
you'll stop waiting for the love that never came41Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6nwpHfyasi
and realize that you can be the one41Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7fGbScz974
who finally gives it41Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJzI1GTqon4
to yourself.

You'll belong—41Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU5RAha41gB
not because someone else lets you in,41Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7ddDaMWo2z
but because you stopped shrinking41Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6Na7RHjCHB
to fit in places that never knew how to hold you.

You are love,41Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgetGj9nAKp
even when no one says it back.

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

41Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOZzWPIR5uW

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