i wrote this today and sent it to my friend and it kinda reminded me of your essays about love so i thought i’d share <3 “you don’t have to love yourself right now to know that you are loved. hundreds of thousands and billions of years have passed in this world, and what have they accumulated to? the creation of you. of your eyes of your lips of your nose and your face! you were intricately crafted by a universe who loves you and wants you here, who has shaped your future and your love and everything you will ever in the future feel. you could never be a mistake or a fuck up or meant not to be here because that would be a slap in the face to the vastness of this world and of the stars that shone upon you at your birth. self love comes from within, but love permeates every cell in your body and piece of you that has ever existed in this world. everything you have done felt and will do is a manifestation of the love that went into your creation, and you can cry and be bruised and be hurt and want to just lie down and never feel anything again but that doesn’t mean there is no future left for you, no world left that seeks you for it spent so many years thinking of you making you and wanting you to be there because of the beauty you hold”