All my life, people were trying to make me conform to their standard of what was right and how I should be.
They tell you to be yourself then judge you if they don’t approve of your choices.
For so long, that’s just how I thought everything and everyone would always be..
Until I met you.
You didn’t criticize my flaws, you celebrated my imperfections.
You saw the person that I stowed behind placid eyes and slowly began to win my trust..
And eventually, my heart and soul.
You didn’t push, force or overwhelm-
You just let me be myself, loved me for everything I was in a way that I’d never known.
In an instant, you changed the story of my life with a chapter I couldn’t have seen coming.
I thought the world was full of the same people doing the same things thinking the same way..
You proved me wrong and I’ve never been happier to be incorrect in my life.
It’s so much more than just love, too.
You accept me unconditionally- all my jagged edges and broken pieces. Without question or hesitation, you hug them tightly and make me realize that everything will be okay.
You’ve shown me that love isn’t a word, it’s a powerful feeling that escapes definition and changed my world, my heart and my mindset.
You love me in such a way that it empowers me to love myself, my life and my future with relentless optimism.
I’ve found that the darkness will always find every one of us, but taking your hand, I know that we will always make our way through it.
The good times and the bad, big things and little..they all exist in brighter colors because of the love you’ve showered me with.
You’re patient with my disastrous days, understanding through my emotional moods and most of all, you’re just there for me, whenever I need you to be.
The moment you walked into my life, I knew then why it had never worked out with anyone else.
Thank you for being you.
There’s no place I would rather be than right beside you,
For the rest of our lives.