Day 25: A Letter to the Girl Who Learned to Survive  There was a long time when I didn’t know how to write a message to my younger self. Not because I didn’t have things to say, but because I didn’t know how to look at her without wanting to scoop her up and protect her from everything she had to carry too soon. So instead of writing to her, I became her.

I wasn’t babied as a child, so I baby myself now. I wasn’t told I was pretty, so I tell myself I am. I was praised for what I could do, so now I practice doing nothing and finding peace there. This is my message to my younger self.

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Petals of Haiku, Letter to My Younger Self, Stanza 15

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