Dear Me...a letter to myself

"Though we are born into this world we fail to see the world. To whatever extent humans seek for happiness outside themselves, the farther away they are from the happiness within" Ajahn Anan

Dear Me,

I wish you’d known that everything was going to be OK in the end. The scared little girl that stayed with you would not be there forever. She would soon find her way and grow into a strong person.

I wish you’d known that your happiness had to come from within you, you didn’t have to look very far – it was there all along. You were peripherally searching, but you had to look no further than the end of your nose. It was always going to be hard, to dig a little deeper to find it, but I knew you would do it.

I wish I could have told you that you are a good, honest person with a beautiful heart. You didn’t need to worry about that. All you had to do was love yourself for who you are and others would always do the same.

I wish you’d known that by surrounding yourself with positive and honest people would be the best thing you could do. I would want to tell you to be content with what life has given you, and to never be afraid of the unknown, or the darkness.

I wish I could have told you to trust the mood in your heart, not the mood in your mind. To separate them like water and oil and only see the truth.

You were always loved unconditionally, and I wish I could have found you to tell you this. And that I’m proud of you, and the person you are and are going to be.

There will always be hard times, but I know that you have the courage to carry on. When your soul aches and you are chasing those thoughts, you already know that you can drown them out. It’s only noise, it’s not the truth – the truth is in your heart remember?

I wish you’d known that you were always walking the correct path; your path. There was no other path for you to take, this was the only one. And only with your wisdom, from all the curves, bumps, bridges, falls and crashes would you now have freedom. Your heart is now released.

And finally, that grown up woman that you used to dream about with a loving husband and beautiful children, in a lovely home with so many passions of her own – is you. You made her, and took her there.

Peace and love always.

From Me

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