Brooke, you’re stuck and hurting and I’m as by your side as I can be and I swear to god it’s only just over a year until I can literally, if all else fails, come get you. I’d come get you and we could be absolutely fucked without a place to live or place to go, but you’re not spending another second in that hellhole that you don’t have to. You’re starlight and the vast expanses of space and a cozy little apartment home to a big, brilliant family. You are worth escape and safety.
If I could go back in time, I’d ask “do you have an alarm?” earlier, when it truly mattered.
Molly, you’re stuck and hurting and everything is too much all the time. You’re across an ocean and half the time it feels like the world must be rainbows because at least it’s better than it used to be and no good person could suffer as you did and do. You’re a brilliant person and those who hurt you are the scum of the Earth. You deserve better. You’re moonbeams and warm milk and feather light kisses that make you laugh on your worst days. Do not listen to anyone who tells you otherwise.
If I could go back in time, I’d ask “do you have summer work?” earlier, when it truly mattered.
Hannah, you’re stuck and hurting and nothing seems like it will ever be okay again. Happiness seems like forbidden fruit that you and only you find unobtainable. You’re too tired to climb the tree like so many other people can and it would be selfish to ask for help, even from those who gladly would. Help comes from family and family is happiness and happiness is forbidden fruit and forbidden fruit is unobtainable. Climb on our shoulders and let us help you; you deserve the world and more. It just takes time to seize it. Prove the awful people who pushed you to this point wrong. You are sunshine and sweets and fingers stroking hair. Staying alive is the strongest thing anyone ever does.
If I could go back in time, I’d ask “do you want to meet my family?” earlier, when it truly mattered.
Smexis, Nate, Lachlan, Nick, Ash, Kelsey, Emily, Cia, Shini, Paisley, Chris, and every other friend who has the slimmest chance of reading this
You matter. You matter more than every star in the sky. All of you matter, whether I just wrote you wordy exposition or not. You’re strength and light and love and hope and joy and some of you are family and some of you are friends and you’re all incredibly important to me. I would hate to lose any of you, no matter if we talk every day or once a week or almost never. You’re my friends. You deserve the world.
To the rest of my followers and to anyone else that may see this, survive. Thrive. The world is full of love and laughter and no matter how bad it gets, it gets better. It gets better.
