to be truly happy is to realize that you should be your own source of happiness, and the love you receive from anyone else, is an addition, not the roots and definitely not a condition for happiness.

it is so very easy to slip and slip till you fall into this hole that threatens to swallow you alive,

because as much as we try, life doesn't always work the way we want it too, things don't automatically go according to this perfect plan in our heads. people don't stay or treat us right just because we want them too.

at the end of the day, you'll realize that you only have yourself, that you're your own responsibility. your unfiltered happiness is your own responsibility.

yes it is beautiful to let people into your world, for their glow to rub off on you. but I have said this and I'm repeating it, that all this have to be an addition.

you can't let it be your beacon, because beacons are only so strong, half of the time they weaken eventually.

so love? you have to hold yourself

not learning to be alone, but learning to be okay with being alone.

you are beautiful, your soul is this big and bright endless pool of warmth inside you and you just have to reach for it, tap into it.

love yourself like only you know how

depend on yourself like only you know how.

find happiness in the smallest of things like only you know how.

be unapologetically you, in the best kind of way, the way that is uniquely yours.

and I promise you my darling, that even when life gives you lemons, the concept of making lemonades wouldn't feel absurd or unreachable.

because you don't have to reach too far. that source of strength that you need to be the person you know deep in your heart you can be,

it's right there, inside you.

© tonnaV