I want you to know what you may not have been told before, or told only too infrequently:
I’m proud of you. I’m proud of you for trying. For placing one foot in front of the other. For waking up every morning and simply giving it your best shot. I’m proud of you for placing a premium on personal growth too.There are relatively few people who work at living well. Many more people, it seems to me, work much harder at getting than becoming. They work at doing more than being. They strive harder at looking better than being better. Where do I begin? You know it’s hard for me to write my feelings down or even put them into words. You are the love of my life baby. I have never ever felt the way I feel about you for anyone else and I really mean it. I have never wanted to make anyone as happy as I want to make you. I would literally do anything for you to be happy. You make my life so much better baby, we have so much fun together. I always want to be near you and with you and never get sick of you. u make me so happy baby and everything I do, I do with you in my mind because you are such an important part of my life. My heart and everything I am belongs to you and only you baby, u are the sexiest most beautiful thing in my life and I am so proud to call you my girlfriend and the love of my life. I am so proud to be around you, but most importantly in who you are. I’m proud of you for your desire to improve and grow, to stretch and challenge yourself.You see, it matters less where you might be today at this moment on the character and happiness continuum than the direction your pointed in and the strides you’re taking toward improving.I’m proud of you for taking those steps. I’m proud of you for being you and working to rise to the best you inside of you. Have you ever been told how beautiful you are? You are a beautiful person because you strive to create beauty in your life by the way you work at living it and in your heart by the way you choose to open it and share it. The external is the shell to the person. You, the person, are already beautiful. And I bask in that beauty. I cherish the relationship we’ve established. I don’t take it lightly or for granted. You have lent me something precious and special. You have lent me your time and your interest. I thank you for that.
I care about your life and your happiness. I wouldn’t do what I do if I didn’t. I care about you as a person. We are spiritual siblings, you and I. I know this to be true. And it means a lot to me. As such, I want the best for you. While I guarantee I’ll fall short of my goal simply because I’m a flawed human being, I will nonetheless strive to always provide you with something of value here, something that helps, that points, that inspires.That, at least, is my aim. Please feel free to hold me to it and call me out if I slip too many. As a person who can shape and reshape your inner world, I also believe you can become what you most want to become.It may take sacrifice and hard work and sustained effort over time. Maybe over a long period of it. But I believe there are paths to what you want most in life.You can become what you wish to become, even if it takes more work than you’ve ever extended to do anything else before in your life.Of course, sometimes what we want won’t serve us very well. In that case, I also believe we can be inspired to reevaluate what we want and align our desires with our capacities and what’s in our long-term best interest.But in the end, it is who we are that matters, not how much we’ve been able to stuff in our closets and stack on our shelves and pad our accounts with. You are an amazing being with amazing God-given capacity. I believe in who you are and who you are working to be. We are all works-in-progress. One of life’s purposes is to improve on the wiring under the hood of our lives. I believe in your ability to stand and courageously be the person you were meant to be.I’m not perfect. Nowhere near it. I have weaknesses and character blind spots. We all do. That fact doesn’t define us. What defines us is what we’re doing about it.You see, the ability to grow and climb and reach and evolve is infinite. You are infinite and eternal. I believe in your ability to rise above and break through and overcome. I believe in your human capacity to survive and change and improve. I believe in your capacity to learn and apply the principles of happiness to live with joy as you develop those qualities that happy people share. I believe you are very special to my heart.