From the second you opened your eyes, you wanted to love the world. You looked at the kids around you on the playground and decided to play with the ones left alone, the ones others want to forget and leave out. Again and again, you gave people countless second chances, always choosing to believe that they would do better next time or it was your fault that things didn't go as planned.
You never saw the way people didn't change, only the ways they could. You never saw how, in helping everyone else, you were forgetting to check on yourself. The world is so full of people who need love, you just wanted to keep on loving them.
They say love is a fix-it for everything, and, girl, it could be your superpower. Even when you're beaten down, even when you're crying yourself to sleep, you wake up, put on a smile for those people who need to see a smiling face, and keep on trying to love everyone. Everyone needs love, you tell yourself, but you forget to ask, "what about me?"
You tell yourself that they didn't change plans on purpose, they just forgot--for the eleventh time--and you keep on loving them. You bend over backwards to make sure they're okay, but when they never ask about you, you shrug and keep on loving them. Even when you got in fights or grew apart, you still find yourself wanting to keep loving them. So you try to love them from afar. It's a habit, a superpower that can't be stopped.
Your big, beautiful heart is a force to be reckoned with. It loves and loves and loves and doesn't want to stop. But it needs to, every once in a while, and turn that love back on itself. Make sure the cracks are fixed and it's still got love to give. Don't love until there's so little left, you can't love yourself. Take time to love yourself too. Don't believe the ugly whispers that say taking time for yourself is selfish, love yourself anyway. It's the only way you will be able to keep your superpower.
Keep loving the world and everything in it--the world could always use a little more love. Just remember that you need love, too. Everyone else needs love, but you can't easily give love from a broken or empty heart. Keep trying to love the world, but remember, you're part of the world too.
