love yourself, be good to yourself.

all those saved drafts.
all those things you typed before pressing the delete key.
all those thoughts you couldn't suppress but couldn't bring yourself to verbalize.
all those things that bring you to tears.
all those things that make you smile when no one can see you.
all those things?
that's who you really are.
and I think we forget that sometimes.
we forget the things that make us US.
guess what?
we can't see the way we look when we laugh.
we don't get to see the light that comes to our eyes when we are passionate about something.
we can't see ourselves for so many things that we are.
we focus on comparing ourselves to those around us.
we focus on what we are not.
we lose ourselves when comparing our looks. our instagrams. our tweets. our likes. our stories. our lives.
you're not anyone else. nor could you ever be.
but you are what you choose to be.
you are the happiness that you choose.
if those saddend, lonely, dark thoughts that crept into your mind at night were the same ones that came to the people you loved, what would you tell them?
love yourself and be good to yourself.
xo