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Write a letter to your younger self about a. challenge you faced as a child but have since overcome 7 months, 3 weeks ago Porcelain Reflections
Tierney RyanDear Younger Self,
You won. Your jabs, tricks, and schemes worked and knocked her down..again and again. She fought a good fight and hung on to her friends no matter how bad they were. Was it because she had low self-esteem? A bad self-image? All created by you projecting a melting image of herself that shone onto every event in her life? So you could feel better? Nobody saved her. Nobody came to her aid. She lay there, water rippling over her body..porcelain reflections on the now flat lukewarm surface. The you now would like this. The me now HATES this. The me now needs to live with those memories and shove them away, blaming them on youth, bad parenting, and low self-worth. But I can’t help but wonder younger self, if we could have saved her, by being kinder. Â
Hand on stomach and heart,
Older selfVoting is closed
Tierney, I like this letter because I am unaware of many of the details and I don’t know the backstory but I can see the perspective flip that happens in the middle. I like where you said “The you now would like this. The me now HATES this” because despite your regretting the actions that were taken, you realize that what was done was wrong and you are able to see the other side of the situation. This shows mental growth and maturity. Even though it is tough to hear, what happened in the past is IN the past. We can’t change it, so we have to live with our experiences and alter ourselves in the future if we don’t like something. Strive to be a kinder person than you were and make the change. You can do it. ♥
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Thank you for your feedback, I really appreciate it ❤️!
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