All That You Deserve

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You deserve someone who will show up for you the way you show up for them. I hope you seek patience in the process of finding love. I hope you hold your standards high because you do deserve what you desire.

You are on a journey and every experience is leading you to where you belong. It’s really hard to see and trust when you’re living through the awkwardness of the unknown, but you are exactly where you’re meant to be right now. You are experiencing everything you are meant to be. Not everything happens for a reason but everything that happens can lead to a deep lesson and change. Doors that are meant for you will open for you. Doors don’t open until our souls live through and grow through what we go through. One day you will come to a door when you least expect it and it will open. You will be filled with a new light. Until then, be where you are now. Ask your soul to show you what you need to know. “I open my heart to the lessons intended for me. I am deeply growing.” As long as you are here, it is not too late to do the things you wish you had done by now. Living within a negative headspace of regret won’t get you anywhere. You will get to do what you want to do if you start trying to believe it can happen. The more negative energy you put out there, the less positive outcomes you will get. This is your reminder to believe in yourself.Your hard work will pay off. Maybe not soon, but someday you will see that your efforts meant something all along. You deserve someone who will hold your heart through your hard days—someone who won’t judge you through it. Someone who will understand that it’s okay to not be yourself all of the time. Someone who will still care about you even if time goes by and you haven’t reached out to them. You deserve someone who will still reach out to you even when you’ve been distant. They will know you’re going through a hard time, but they will still be there whenever you are ready. You deserve to be transparent without being pushed away. If you haven’t found the people you need yet, hold on, because you will. If you have found the people you can’t live without, hold onto them and remind them you love them. Please don’t be embarrassed about what you’ve been through. It’s difficult to feel like no one truly understands you. It’s difficult to feel alone in what you’ve been through. I promise you, someone in the universe has been through something very similar to you. You are never out of your mind for feeling what you feel. You are never too far gone to be saved. It’s okay to feel confused. It’s okay to feel overwhelmed. It’s okay to worry about what others are thinking. It’s okay to take your time. It’s okay to step away from the beliefs you’ve been told to believe. It’s okay to be figuring out what you believe. Through the process you are discovering the truth of who you are. Allow the process to flow as it is flowing. Open up when you are ready to open up. Surrender to who you are. Trust in who you are. There are people who will come into your life that shift your future. Some for better, some for worse. But don’t dwell too long on those who made your life worse. Remember the ones who cared that didn’t need to. Remember the ones who carried you when you couldn’t get up. The ones who loved you without knowing you. The ones who helped you when you didn’t know you needed them. The ones who showed kindness when you needed it most. There are people you don’t even remember today that are a reason you are where you are. There are people out there who remember you because of the impact you made on them. Your life is special and your life is important. Even when you feel alone, you won’t be left alone. Even when you can’t hold yourself together, someone will be there to keep you safe.

Poet Jacqueline Whitney is a multi-faceted artist from New Hope, Pennsylvania. As the author of three books of poetry, Beyond Worthy, All That You Deserve, and Stay Until Tomorrow, she has established herself as a distinctive voice in the literary community and on social media. Figuring your life out won’t happen overnight, because it shouldn’t. Part of the process is finding patience with the process. You will start to know what to do or where to go once you truly let go. I am so in love with this book. I have never felt so many emotions reading poems so simple. I cried, a lot, I felt so deeply with this book. It made me feel understood in a way. This book will be one of my favourites. It made me realise so many things about myself and that it was okay to just be me. Like the start of the book states: Thank you for being the person who makes people feel okay when they’re not okay. The world truly is a kinder place because you are in it. You don’t need to regret something you did or someone you were with because in the moment, something within you chose it.Never forget life is precious. Please don’t take your breath for granted. Life is long yet life is short. Tell them you love them. Make memories that fill your soul with joy. Take that leap of faith. Keep going. Hold each other tight. Fight for yourself and know that your peace is more important than anything else. The people who judge you are not secure within themselves. If they were, they would know kindness is the only way to treat someone. Those of us who touch darkness and persevere through it are the ones who experience more light and goodness in this life. Some of us choose to not let what happens to us victimize us, but instead, change our corners of the world in any positive way we can. We are the changemakers they talk about. When you’re feeling like a burden to the people around you, remember the moments you brought them joy. Remember the moments you made someone laugh or the moments you helped someone out. Remember the moments you felt like you belonged—not the moments you feel like you don’t belong anywhere. You do belong everywhere you are. Remember, humans need humans and humans want to be there for their people. I hope you learn to like the human being that you are. I hope you learn to speak to yourself gently. I hope you learn to give yourself credit. I hope you remind yourself of your worth when you’re feeling unworthy of being where you are. You are beyond worthy of taking up space. People love you where you are and want you around. You have never been too much of anything. I hope you find time to remind yourself that you are where you need to be and you will get to where you want to be.

You should", "You will", "You deserve", ini tuh jadi perawalan kalimat yang paling banyak aku temukan di buku ini. Ya, hal ini memang seakan-akan mengajak reader agar tersugesti dengan kalimatnya. Sending love to anyone struggling with their mental health. I am so proud of you for doing your best to be okay. Sometimes along the way to being okay the best thing you can do is remind yourself that you will always end up okay—even if you don’t believe it. Write it down. Make a song with only those six words. Paint the words in a picture or draw them on your skin. Tell someone else they will always end up okay because sometimes reminding others helps us remind ourselves.Even if you don’t feel content where you are, I am so proud of you for being where you are. You have overcome more than so many people know. Maybe there was a time you didn’t think you would make it, but here you are. You made it and you will continue to make it. You deserve to live the life you want to live, not the life others expect you to live. You deserve to be proud of the person you are and love the life you are living. You don’t always have to explain yourself. It is not your job to make people understand your heart.

To be honest I had never had the chance to read a mental health/poetry book and this book definitely left an impression. If I had to describe it in a simple word, I’d say “wholesome”. The truth is, life is really delicate and really unpredictable. One day you can be telling someone you love them and the next they are gone. One day you can be in perfect health and the next you are fighting for your life. Most of the time, we walk through our days unconsciously—rushing time as if we have all the time in the world. Most of the time, we are looking towards the future as if the future will be everything we want now, as if this moment right now is never enough, as if we won’t be complete until we accomplish what we think will fulfill us. The truth is, we don’t know how much time we have left. We don’t know if our next breath will lead to death. We don’t know if the moments we tell ourselves will happen, will happen. I don’t mean to say this to scare you or to be dark. I say this to lovingly remind you that your life is yours to live now. Don’t wait. Don’t spend your days dreaming without taking action. You are worthy of your dreams but your dreams won’t happen without action. Life is fragile but insanely beautiful if you just try to look for the beauty within it no matter what you are going through. No matter how dark it gets, light is always present. Even if you feel fragile, you are insanely strong. Don’t forget to live your life the way you want to. Life is meant to be lived, not ignored.You can stand up for yourself. You can look up to the sky and know you are not alone in this world. You can still do the things you haven’t done. It is not too late. You can be resilient but still deserve all the time you need to rest. You can do anything that you think you can’t.