Hello Beautiful,

You're reading this right now for one simple reason. You saw the title and said to yourself, "sometimes, I feel like I'm unloved." Well, let me start off by telling you that you're not alone. Everyone, especially girls, sometimes feel like they're unloved.

Whether it's by their friends, family, co-workers, or even yourself, feeling unloved, or as if you don't belong, is unfortunately a common feeling amongst a lot of us. Yes, even me, the girl writing this, feels that way sometimes. No, it's not crazy to think this way, although everyone deserves love.

Here is how I know that people love you.

Yes, I know, I may not even know you and I'm going to tell you how people can love you. Don't look at it that way, because being loved is more simple than you may think.

Being loved is laughing and having someone smile back at you, or even laugh with you. Being loved is hugs, cuddles, and the most gentle of touches. Being loved is that text message that says, "be careful getting home." Being loved is so much more than people just telling you the words, "I love you." Hell, some people have the hardest time saying those words, yet they show that they love someone in other ways.

When someone loves you, they'll open the door for you, or make you soup when you're sick. When someone loves you, they'll bring you a soda when you're having a bad day, or simply just when they feel like it. When someone loves you, they'll ask you to hang out first. When someone loves you, you'll know.

Everyone has someone that loves them. A boyfriend, girlfriend, BFF, family member, teacher, or, hell, a pet.

Someone loves you.

Yes, you.

Don't ever forget that.

Now, the important thing about feeling loved is loving yourself.

I know it's hard to do. I don't love myself some days. I look at myself in the mirror and question how others could love me, let alone myself. I say to myself, "Why do I have to have freckles on my face and a weird smile? Why does my hair always have to be so frizzy and unmanageable?"

On these days, I take a deep breath, close my eyes, and look back in that mirror.

I answer all of the questions I just asked myself.

I have freckles on my face because, as mama used to tell me, "a face without freckles is like a night without stars." My hair is so frizzy because that's the way it was meant to be... and hey, some days, I really can rock the big poofy head of brown hair I have. Others love me because I am 100% me, and no one else. And people love those who are 100% themselves.

I don't look for love from people by putting on makeup or wearing cute clothes when I'm out with my friends. I look for love by interaction, by showing and telling people who I really am, and all of the cool things about me.

That's what love is. It's as simple as that.

So the next time you think you aren't loved or appreciated, know that you are, even if it doesn't feel like it in the moment. Know that someone is thinking about you throughout the day, whether it's the person in the halls at school that you smiled at after making weird eye-contact with, or your significant other that you're in love with.

Someone loves you. Yes, you.

And you should love you too.