Relocate

First off, thank you for talking to me. I’m really honored that you feel comfortable opening up to me even if your identity is unknown. Any time someone comes like this, I feel almost obligated to make sure you know that it will help you feel much better if you know this is personal by removing the anonymity. But I’m do respect your decision to be anonymous and if you continue to send me messages anonymously I will be happy to respond specifically.

Fifteen is a young age. It’s really lame that people experience so much at your age and I wish it weren’t the case. But it is, and unfortunately a lot of people feel the same way you do. You are not alone. You are an amazing person individually, and you are an individual masterpiece. You are beautiful. You are loved.

Self worth is so hard to deal with. I want to encourage you to not depend on other peoples’ standards for your self worth. Do not depend on your parents, your friends, your romantic interests, media, magazines, or anything else for your worth. They will do nothing but tell you how you don’t meet their standards. Wanna know a little secret? (Nobody does.) Much like you, people will put on those faces and often times look like they have it all together when, like you, they are suffering inside. Behind closed doors they are so full of pain and misery that they turn to other things that they eventually let define them, because they don’t know what else to do. They don’t know where else to turn.

God created you, and I know what God says about you, individually. Look it up sometime. All you have to do is type in “what the Bible says about me” and you’ll find all kinds of scripture that tells you how God sees you.

If that all seems too fake, I understand. I’ve been going through some of that lately, where God’s word just doesn’t seem to have impact. It feels like it’s not enough. (To clarify, God is more than enough.) To be honest with you, I can’t give you all the answers. I don’t have the magical get-out-of-hurt-free card… but I can tell you that you are loved and beautiful just the way you are. I wish I could hear more details from you about what you’re going through so I could better respond to you… but I’ll leave you with this for now. You are so strong. You are so full of life and you little heart has taken so much stress and pain and you are so hurt. But you WILL make it through this, and you WILL be happy again. I believe in you. Feel free to message me anytime :)