You were once so dark, hiding your spirits from the world. So in pain but yet still so strong, nobody knew the struggle you had faced. Except for me. I saw you fighting, I tried my hardest to help but the darkness inside was far too strong for me to fight on my own. Before I had known it, you were enclosed in a sea of darkness. I had feared many times it was too late for you to be saved. I had thought you would be like this, forever.

You tried so hard. Despite the many obstacles thrown your way, you tried so hard. While the darkness had overseen your life, it had still not fully taken you away. You were still there, deep down waiting for your strength to build up and fight the demons away. You were born a fighter, and no obstacle or crippling demon can take that from you.

You were once so weak. The fight had become harder and harder for you to bare. You had considered giving up on more than one occasion. You often wished you could give up. Your strength was wearing much too thin for you to take. Your pain had become not only mentally but physically. You would do anything for all that pain to go away. You were tired, in better words, you were down right exhausted. Exhausted from pushing to get to the end of everyday. Exhausted from plastering that smile across your face. Exhausted from living a life, at that point, you just didn't want to live anymore.

I was scared I was losing you to that demon. That the girl I used to know was gone forever.

I thought I had lost the fight. I thought I had lost, myself.

But while that demon had thought he had won, I rose up again. Slowly gathering the strength to defeat him, for good. Developing the the strength, agility and determination to rid him of the girl I used to know. With every passing day, we grew stronger. We grew to fight off the demon and show him that we would not fall for his tricks any longer.

You grew stronger as he diminished. While the girl I once knew had gotten left behind, a new one had arised. A girl who can fight demons on her own, that doesn’t underestimate her own strength. A girl who no longer puts aside her own emotions for the sake of others. A girl that has finally come to realize that she is most important, that she comes first in her own life. Because without her, her life would not exist.

You are stronger now. You are more you than you ever were before. While many get taken by their demons, yours made you stronger. Yours made you find who you really are. Which in a way, is better than that girl I used to know.