I ran away from myself, paid no heed to my faults and saw all my actions as justified. Until you clasped my hands around a pen and told me to write.

We, wrote a list. Another and then a third.

The first one became the mirror that revealed to me all the qualities that invoked self-hate. I added to this list. For the parts of myself, I could not see, you added those to the list as well.   

The second taught me that I am a decent human being, worthy of Self-Love. On the days where I felt worthless, when I wasn’t in the right of mine, you added to the list and helped me to think rationally again.

The third one told things would get better and how. It taught me the steps to Flourish.

I am still Flourishing, fixing what I can, and accepting what I cannot, I cross things off the first list.

Thank you, my teacher, my friend, sometimes my therapist, Mr.Chen.