Lo que espero para ti en 2025

Espero que aceptes el amor de ti mismo.

I hope you stop with the torment, the guilt, and the misconception that you aren’t good enough. It took me a very long time to accept the very concepts I’m wishing for you now.

It took me a very long time to realize that I wasn’t the awful words people said about me. It took time to trust in the world again, because for such a long time I thought it was made up of people who were only out to hurt you.

2024 me enseñó que lo bueno en el mundo siempre supera a lo malo. Espero que 2025 te enseñe esta misma lección.

Espero que nunca seas víctima de las viles palabras con las que te llamó. Espero que este año te enseñe que no todos los hombres son iguales, al igual que cada amor es diferente.

For a while, I used to think love was comprised of only the effort you put into it. Love is not that. Love is a feeling that moves you. It’s not a word you toss around when you’ve messed up and you hope that three little words are enough to salvage the relationship.

Love isn’t what continually tarnishes a relationship. Love is what builds it.

I think back to four years ago when I found myself divorced, living upstairs in my parents’ attic, wondering what in the hell the word ‘love’ even meant. Back then, I thought love meant someone loving me. I thought it meant male attention. I thought it meant it had to be given by someone else.

Lo que descubrí es cómo mi definición del amor ha cambiado a lo largo de los años.

El amor significaba elegirme a mí misma. El amor significaba seguir mis pasiones, por ridículas y descabelladas que parecieran. El amor significaba sentarme ante un teclado y volcar mi alma en él.

Love meant accepting my flaws. Love meant accepting the stretch marks on my stomach and loving myself for them. Love meant liking myself enough and once I did that, I didn’t really care if someone else went out of their way to hate me.

That’s my wish for you, in the coming year. I wish you a year where you start to love yourself for the girl staring back at you in the mirror.

Espero que ames sus imperfecciones. Espero que ames sus imperfecciones. Espero que ames tus sueños y tus deseos y, por el amor de Dios, espero que te ames a ti mismo lo suficiente como para perseguirlos.

Espero que 2025 te recuerde a la chica que eras antes de perderte en esas inseguridades. Espero que 2025 te devuelva a tu amor y, sobre todo, espero que reavive en ti ese fuego que él se esforzó tanto en apagar.

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by Courtney Dercqu