Samantha Anne.

“Work hard in silence. Let your success be the noise.”

“Sometimes when you were hurting, all you wanted was for someone to come and hold you until you stopped shaking. And all too often, no one would come. And so, you learned to hold yourself. And so, you learned to find sanctuary within your own mind. And so, like this, you learned to survive.”

“But I’m okay now. I thought I’d be enveloped in that sadness and yearning for you forever. Yet I suddenly found myself happy again. I found myself not thinking about you anymore and laughing and truly feeling alive again. Yes, I still miss you from time to time. I think a part of me always will because I loved you both as a signficant other and best friend. And that’s okay.”

How do you tell someone that when they reply to you after twelve hours, it breaks your heart. How do you tell them that, them forgetting to reply to you, breaks your heart. How do you tell them that they never hit you up first and you notice. You notice how everything has changed. How do you tell them that things weren’t like this before and you ache for things to be the way they used to be.

“How selfish of me, to think we could have been more than I could ever give.”

“What is an empath? A person who feels like everything has a feeling and absorbs that energy to release love, healing, and kindness to the world.”

“Don’t be the reason someone feels insecure. Be the reason someone feels seen, heard, and supported.”