become best friends with your ten year old self im so fucking serious
i really need you guys to stop adding shit to this post and messaging me like âno my ten year old self was a huge asshole and undeserving of my kindnessâ. im not anyones fucking therapist but if im making a post about healing my inner child i would like to not be barraged with peoples comments and DMs about how their inner child selves are actually so terrible and evil.
lets consider that maybe you were awful then - the fact that youâve changed enough to feel that way proves that the child that you were had something in them to make the choice to grow and do better. more likely you really werent as awful as you think and you mightve been in bad situations that you didnt know how to handle.
regardless this post is not the place to tear into yourself like that. like iâm trying to engage with some positivity here and if you really hate it you could just ignore the post.
you cannot grow without some love in the world and that includes love from yourself. you can be best friends with your child self without condoning whatever they did or thought that youâre so against now. you have advantages now that you didnt have then, time and experience and a more developed brain and probably more autonomy. you can love them for their best and understand and unpack their worst. if you believe in being basically kind to others maybe extend a little of that to yourself.
also if the issue is you think you were soo cringe back then. like. listen to me. yeah. come here. a little closer.
cringe isnt real.
