LETTERS TO MY YOUNGER SELF: PART 5.

Dear Boba,

“I don’t need anyone”

I have repeated the same four words to myself after every rejection, disappointment, and heartbreak, after every experience of picking up my many broken pieces and tending to all of my own bruises.

“I don’t need anyone”

After the fear of vulnerability sneaks in, and the call to lean in and trust anyone outside of myself, gets far too heavy. After running away from every opportunity to let a little love and light in. After self sabotaging my way to an expected abandonment.

“I don’t need anyone”

I have repeated the same words to myself now for far too long and finally I think it’s time to affirm something else.

Yes, you’ve carried the weight of your own world, but you need not continue. Just because you’ve cared for your own soul for so long doesn’t mean you must hide it away from every known and unknown.

The truth is you needed someone , but along the way, you learned not to, and yet it still remains,

“You need someone”

You’re allowed to lean in when the heart and intent is right,

You’re allowed to love and be loved.

“You need someone”

And that is okay.

B.