Letter to Me

You don’t have to earn it.
 
Not by impressing people
  with your heartfelt writing or singing
  your physical feats or keen observations
Not by making them laugh
  with your silliness and charm
Not by helping them out
  with your professional competence
  or deep-diving intellect.
 
You have all these things
    (yes, you do)
  but they are not tools
  to earn love and value.
They are results of the fact
  that love is already there.
 
Your only job
  is not to hinder it with your wounds
  to let it flow freely
  and to marvel at the connections it brings.
 
You don’t have to earn it.
 
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