Read This If You Needed Someone To Tell You They’re Proud Of You Today
If no one told you this today — I am proud of who you are becoming.
Sometimes, we need others to speak what they see within us because we cannot recognize it within ourselves. Sometimes, we struggle to understand the lightness of our own potential because all we see is the weight of our pasts, of our wounds. We see our anxiety, and our overthinking, and the way we care so deeply as if it were a weakness within us. We compare ourselves, and we aren’t gentle with ourselves or the shape of our own journey. We don’t acknowledge the way we are fighting to become the kind of human being we ourselves can be proud of, we don’t recognize how much strength that takes.
I see how hard you are trying, and I want you to know that I am proud of you. To want to lean into your growth when it isn’t neatly organized, when it isn’t easy or convenient, is such an intensely beautiful thing. To want to be softer in this world, to want to love more, and care more, and do more with your time here — that is special. You deserve to believe in the goodness that is waiting for you on the other side of your healing. You deserve to believe that nothing in your past has ever made you unworthy of your future — that the right things were always going to find you, were going to stay, despite what you have been through at the hands of this life.
Who you are in this very moment is valid, and worthy. The way you want to love and be loved, is valid. The dreams you have are valid. Your healing is valid. Your sadness, and your grief, is valid. Your happiness is valid. You hold so much potential within yourself. You are capable of doing the most immensely awe-inspiring things. And I am sorry that the world at times has tried to convince you otherwise — but you are going to be okay. You are going to become the human being you have always hoped to be. You are going to discover your own version of happiness, of hope. You are going to look back on the moments you ever doubted your becoming, and you are going to be so glad that you kept going. So keep going. You are growing and evolving more beautifully than you may realize right now. Please don’t lose sight of that.
Bianca Sparacino is a poet. She is the author of The Strength In Our Scars and A Gentle Reminder.
