Write a love note to yourself. Write it from someone else’s point of view. It can be a real person or a made-up person. Start with the line: Dear [your name], If you could see what I see, you’d see that you are ______.
Write about what they see in you, what they find beautiful. I call this practice “In the Voice of Someone Who Loves You.”
Dear Elle,
If you could see what I see, you'd see that you are .
Because first and foremost if I said anymore than that your synapses would be at the ready against any possible ounce of hyperbole or 'over'-crediting. So you can be anything that you want, and I will abstain from any one of those adjectives that you'd find yourself able to pick apart in your mind and deem only letters of the alphabet, devoid of any meaning. Because as of today you still fear being held, evade being understood as much as you yearn for it - so be what you want. I don't know what you are today; you could be lovely, disastrous, kind, impatient, bubbly, silent, open, confused. Today you could be Elle, Li Ling, her, who, what. She, he, they, it might read this today and indulge, or skip over it to whatever previous entry. I don't claim to have any idea.
I can only say for certain that no matter your form that I will love you, and that is not too much. That you have not imposed this on me but I have chosen so because I believe that regardless what you are, that you are worth it. And allow those last two words to pass over you if you find them difficult to swallow for reasons I might have mentioned above. Call it just me then, blind or too good, up to you.
Regardless.
Love,
Anonymous
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