Love yourself enough Love yourself enough to walk away from places that keep asking you to bleed just to belong. Love yourself enough to stop explaining your worth to people who already decided not to see it. I know how painful it is to keep choosing others while secretly hoping someone will finally choose you with the same intensity. I know what it feels like to overgive until your spirit feels empty, to stay too long because your heart keeps finding reasons to forgive what keeps hurting it. But there comes a moment in life where you realize that constantly abandoning yourself is not love, it is survival disguised as loyalty. Love yourself enough to rest when your soul is tired, to say no without guilt, to leave what keeps draining you, and to protect the parts of you that are still soft despite everything life has done to harden them. Some people will only appreciate your absence because they never respected your presence. And that hurts, I know. But not as much as spending your entire life begging for love in places where your heart was only being tolerated instead of cherished.