Stay
Stay for the days you can look back at a picture of 4 year old you, when you refused to cut your hair. When your 16 year old sister told everyone you were the coolest little dude, even if she didn’t always show you. Stay because one day you’ll realize she actually did, and you can see it now.
Stay so you can find out what 30 year old you thinks of it all. How far you’ve come. How far you’ve left to go, and maybe worrying about it all a little less as your confidence has grown too.
Stay for you. Stay for me. For your sister. Grandparents, aunts, uncles, and on and on. Stay for your friends, girlfriend, dog. Stay for the best friend you could make in college. The framily you haven’t even met yet and watching the ones you’ve know ‘forever’ change, grow, get older. Stay for whoever makes sense right now when nothing else does.
Stay To see Fiji, Alaska, and Hawaii. To discover a new meaning in words you thought you understood, until they shift in your perception. Stay for the maybe. Stay for possibility. Stay to change your name and claim your future, empowered.
Stay and let someone carry the weight with you. Stay because your voice your ideas your heart, YOU matter. And you are so worthy. And if you need someone to remind you, bruh - we got you.
Stay.
❤️✨🌹
I don’t talk much about others lost, it’s not my story to tell. But I think about them each and every day. I hope the people who love them are managing.
If today or any day is too much for you or someone you love - don’t go it alone. It’s scary to reach out. It’s scarier to reach out more than once to different people and feel like no one’s hearing you. Not everybody knows what to do, not every resource is going to be a great fit. Not everybody likes peaches… please stay.
988 National Mental Health Line
866-488-7386 The Trevor Project
I’m not qualified to provide crisis intervention, but DM, email (website) or reach out to me if you want to talk about what to do to help someone. I’ll get ya going and hold your hand and remind you you’re doing a great job. Kinda like a lived experience guide. I don’t know all the pitfalls, but I can give you a head start.