Lauren Yip

When I fell in love with who I had become, versus the anxious person who continually self-sabotaged herself, I knew that I could fall in love with life — and eventually also with someone who embraces all of me with open arms, and with a kind heart and a beautiful soul.

I picked apart my ways of life like old, familiar circuits, and then rewired myself from within to be different.

Feeling negative emotions, while difficult to face, is at the core of what makes us so human.

Be in the present, and take a moment to feel. To be grounded. To let your mind rest.

I long to get away from the city noise to reset myself — to drive on the old highway down by the water, keeping my eyes steady on the winding road as it follows the coastline.

No one knows my story at a first glance, and no one will know yours. But I promise, I will always try to see the good in you and understand how you got to where you are now. 

Why focus on the past when the future is full of possibilities?

What happened cannot be reversed or erased from my mind, but I hope that day by day, those memories will fade away and eventually be lost.

While I was still holding on, you were already long gone. 

How can you stop feeling loss, unless you’ve turned your flames of anger into butterflies of forgiveness that you can let go?

Today, for the first time in 6 months, I went an entire day without you crossing my mind.

I’m healing now, so please don’t talk to me if you don’t mean it; I’d rather be filled with silence than lies.

Someone like you tried to break someone like me.

All that will be left are the reminders of a time where the pain went on for days, months, and years. 

Don’t let yourself be defined by the almosts of life. 

Thoughts fall through the abyss, thoughts with no destination or path to follow. The black of the night, like wisps of smoke filling the air, drowns my mind with anxiety and doubt. 

I didn’t want to believe that was the last time I would see you.

You are more than what others think of you or the decisions you choose, because only you can make those for yourself.