You tell yourself words of negativity.
You chide yourself whenever you make a mistake.
When you let someone in too soon, you beat yourself up.
Amber Zewert
When you fall for thewrong one, you become guarded and hesitant.
You punish yourself for all the ways youre human.
And not only do you get your heart broken, but youbreak your own heart, too.
You think theres something wrong with you when someone walks away.
You think youre somehow unworthy when the connection falls flat.
Isnt this world hard enough without you being your own biggest critic?
Amber Zewert
Isnt there enough pain and punishment without you inflicting your own?
You have to give yourself permission tolove, and love fully.
Regardless of what may happen or what has gone wrong in the past.
Regardless of the doubt holding you back, or the rules this world imposes upon you.
Give yourself permission to love.
Without beating yourself up over the past.
Without holding on to relationships that fell apart.
Without continually telling yourself youre unworthy or unable or unfit for a real connection.
Give yourself permission to feel something real.
To hold another persons hands in yours and watch the world just slow down.
To kiss new lips and laugh at how nervous and imperfect and wonderful it is.
To fight and question and learn how to shape your life to fit someone else.
To be imperfect, alongside someone else, learning to care and trust and rebuild from the past.
Give yourself permission to say too much, be too much, care too much.
To fall, fall hard, fall down, and get back up again.
Instead of walking away, step forward.
And love, damn it.
