This one’s for the girls...

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who wear their hearts on their sleeves

who are fiercely loyal

who get hurt easily

who expect others to be kind

and good

and deserving

who are hopeless people-pleasers

who are sometimes...naive

Good for you.

Don’t let our world make you callous. Don’t feel inferior because you believe in decency. Don’t allow yourself to live in the basement of your compassion. And in those fleeting moments when you think life would be easier if you were coarse, 

remember,

only fools mistake kindness for weakness,

believe silver linings are frail,

and walk all over those who can still find this place beautiful.

Because those who don’t feel deeply jaded by this world, are the strongest of all.

I cherish you for being soft. You know who you are.