No one will ever fully be able to understand the internal battles you had to endure

just to heal, just to grow, just to make it here today. You should be proud of the
way you fought to save yourself
General ✨

You should be proud of the way you survived. In this generation there is so much
pressure to be unphased, to be unaffected. The world will try to tell you to just
move on, to just distract yourself from what is going on in your heart. It will
tell you that you care too much, that you need to move forward as quickly as
possible. It happens so often; it can make you question yourself.

But you know what is going on inside of your own soul. You know your heart. No one
around you knows how hard you are trying, how much internal work you have done, how
brave it is to heal even when it hurts. No one knows your silent battles. No one
around you knows what goes through your mind when the world is quiet, and your
thoughts, and your pain, and your memories, and your past knock at your door. No
one knows what it is like to be you, moving through this season. And no one knows
what you have had to endure, on the deepest level. No one knows what you have truly
been through, because they did not personally experience the break or the loss or
the hurt.

This is your reminder that your feelings are valid. This is your reminder to look
back at how far you have truly come. Think back to the moments you thought would
defeat you. Think back to all of the things you genuinely did not think you would
be able to heal from. You have saved yourself so many times before. Day after day.
Hour after hour. Minute by minute. And sometimes that has been messy, and sometimes
you have fumbled with the weight of healing and what it requires, and sometimes you
have taken the long way towards understanding, or closure, or clarity - but you
still showed up to do it. That takes a lot of courage, and you are strong enough to
do it again, and again, and again. You have been through so much at the hands of
this world, but it has never defeated you. There is strength to be found within
that.