"Take a broken girl, treat her like a famous princess, give her the best seats in the house. Buy her coffee and cigarettes for the coming down, books and bathroom things for the days ahead. Tell her something true when all she's known are lies. Tell her God loves her. Tell her about forgiveness, the possibility of freedom, tell her she was made to dance in white dresses. All these things are true."
today is the 2nd annual To Write Love on Her Arms Day. this is a cause that i will forever support and promote. i think what they are doing is amazing. i believe that everyone deserves to be loved. deserves to know that they are loved. and deserves to be reminded that they are loved everyday.
too many people go through life feeling alone, without ever knowing that anyone cares about them. without ever feeling the joy of hearing the three little words that mean so much; some without ever letting themselves feel it. i believe that every single person in the world has at least one other person in the world that truly and absolutely loves them. loves them for who they are, despite their faults, despite their past.
to me it's about letting people in. let someone know when you are hurting. there will always be someone willing to listen. maybe it won't be the first person you try talking to, but somewhere there is someone who wants to hear you. and who wants to show you that life is worth it. even when life is tearing you apart.
TWLOHA goes all over the world, to be there for people who just need to hear that they are loved. sometimes that's all it takes. knowing someone cares. even if it's someone you've never met.
i've only been blogging for 4 months, and i've already found people in this blogosphere that i care about. i may never even get to meet them in person, but i care to know that they are okay. if any of you stopped posting for any large amount of time, without first saying you were going on hiatus, i would worry that maybe something terrible has happened. it makes me wonder, what if something happened to one of you? would someone come on your blog to let the world know? or would you just disappear? because then i would spend forever wondering and worrying.
it's weird to think that way about people you've never met, but when you read the kinds of blogs i do, when someone writes about their life, i feel like i really get to know them. when someone lets you in to that point, when you know they're having a great day, or you know they're having a terrible day, you genuinely feel excited or sad for them.
so i guess this is my way of saying i love you to all the bloggers that i've come to know in the past 4 months. and for anyone else who happens to read this, know that you are loved too.
and always keep smiling
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