🌿🤍I have always...

🌿🤍I have always been a champion of inadequacy.

In my eyes always imperfect, 

always wrong, 

always out of place.

I looked ugly, 

I felt stupid.

Never up to anything or anyone.

And, 

unfortunately, 

whoever I chose to have by my side, 

loves and friendships, 

excluding my family, 

always increased the dose of pain and tears.

(Only later did I realize that we often attract people who walk with us:

if you don't love and respect yourself how can you recognize love and respect and the lack thereof in the behavior of others?)

At the height of great pains that had suddenly come upon me, 

I collapsed.

It happens to all human beings, 

I understood it over time.

And, 

despite the suffering that I wouldn't even wish on my worst enemy, 

I still bless the day when every part of me was shattered.

Because, 

breath after breath, 

I collected all the pieces, 

I studied them down to the smallest detail, 

I adjusted and smoothed them with obsessive care.

and I put them back together, 

even the ugly ones… 

especially the chipped, 

ruined ones.

Years. 

Not just days. 

Not just minutes.

It took years to be reborn.

I did it.

And you can do it too. 

You have to.

Because I'm not a superwoman or some heavenly being who descended to earth.

I am a human being just like you.

With imperfections, 

fears, 

uncertainties, 

defects, 

strengths, 

dreams, 

desires, 

fragility, 

talents.

And cracks. 

Which I am now madly in love with.

They are the glimmers between the pieces of my soul from which every day I let in the light that gives me peace and from which I let out the toxic thoughts that no longer have a place in my rooms that embrace the wind and the scent of the sea.

It won't happen right away.

It won't be painless.

It will not be easy.

But it will happen.

Life always returns to inhabit the hearts that can give it one more beat.

Breath after breath... 

🤍💖💗💕💓💘💞💝