SPREADING LOVE TO EVERYONE ON VALENTINE'S DAY

HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY!!

To all you beautiful people!! Valentine’s Day, to me, is about celebrating LOVE. Any kind of LOVE. This world needs a lot of it, let me tell ya. I feel like if we can spread kindness and love into this world we’ll be okay. Today, I was truly shown that I was loved. Not with chocolate or flowers, but with support and reassurance. I’m so so thankful for my friends, family, and Andrew. I know that I’m extremely lucky to have them in my life. They support me everyday no matter the time I know I can count on them. Today, has been a very interesting Valentine’s day so far. I woke up to a hateful email ripping me to shreds. Woohoo! Fun right?? I just stared it not knowing what to think. At first I thought, omg what’s wrong with me? What did I do to upset this person? Why would they say these terrible things to me? Out of everyone, why me? When in reality, it wasn’t about me. It was a reflection of them. <— something a friend told me, I really liked.

I immediately messaged it to my friends and family and was flooded with love and support encouraging me to keep doing what I’m doing and not to let this person get me down. As much as I LOVED that, I couldn’t help but to continue thinking about why this person did what they did. Honestly, the hurtful things they said about me, didn’t really bother. It was more about the why, if that makes sense. Like what possessed them to message me?? After chatting about this a little more with my friends and family something they said made more sense. I was trying to think logically, when this person wasn’t. They weren’t thinking logically. They wanted to hurt me. For whatever reason, it doesn’t matter, but that was their goal. I mean it had to be right? What other goal could they possibly have? Then I really got to thinking about how lucky I was to grow up with tons of love and support and maybe this person didn’t get so lucky. Maybe this person is extremely lost. Maybe this person doesn’t understand that behind every Instagram or blog post there is a real human with real feelings. Words can truly hurt someone.

So on this Valentine’s Day, I’m sending lots of LOVE to this person and to anyone who maybe didn’t get a lot of it and might be filled with hate. If the person who wrote me that email is reading this now, know that your words did hurt me, but I’m not going to stop doing what I’m doing. I’m going to continue living my life happily! To all the other people who’ve been mistreated or verbally abused by people, know that you’re not alone. Know that you’re the bigger person when you speak out about things like this and stand up for yourself. Know that you are loved too!

Happy Valentine’s Day, friends.

Love always,

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