Today, I am told many things.
I am ugly.
I am cheap.
I am poor.
I am dumb.
I am not good enough.
I don't amount to anything.
I am a failure.
I will be ridiculed. Some people will find happiness in seeing me fail. Some people will choose to help me survive. Some will be indifferent.
There will be days when I will be tough. Then there will be days when I will break down and cry.
But then there will be days when I will be more than just tough. Days when I will feel determined to keep fighting to survive. Not because I want to prove my naysayers wrong. But because I want to be able to tell my story one day.
To someone also struggling to survive. To someone almost ready to give up. To someone who has mistaken giving up on life as an act of courage.
Let me capture this feeling of wanting to survive in a little note. So that one day if I feel like giving up, I am reminded I am capable of keeping up a good fight.
So that one day if YOU feel like giving up, you are reminded that you too are capable of surviving. You are not alone.
You can do this. I can do this. We can do this.
Don't give up. You are way stronger than you think.
