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To those who thought you’d need to earn it⬇️

Recently I felt that i didn’t deserve love. I felt undeserving of even taking a step towards it because I thought: What great thing have you done to even deserve it, Veronica?

I said that to myself. I actually almost let it hold me back from going after what I wanted. “What an awful thought,” I said to myself later.

But it’s how I felt in the moment. When I dug deeper I understood it came from a place of inadequacy. When you grow up being praised for doing things that others wanted you to do…when people asked you “what have you done to deserve X,” it began to shape a narrative in my mind.

“You’re only worthy of love when you do something worthy of love.”

That is untrue. Your pure and utter existence is deserving. Why? Because look at you. You are beautiful in every human way. You can excel at something and do poorly in another and deserve love. You can excel at one thing and excel at another and be worthy of love. You can mess everything up and still be worthy.

You deserve love, always and I challenge you to believe it even when you don’t feel it is true.