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even, especially, all.

do you know how they got to be like that? how they came to be that way? how deep those wounds had to be that they allowed themselves to bleed all over you? do you know their story from childhood? i bet you do. and i’ll bet it’s a long one.

now, even if you don’t have one handy, picture them as a child. look at their small, young face. their eyes are not the same as the ones you knew. that’s because their eyes hadn’t yet taken in the darkness. it was before they started to look at you and everything as the problem, before they saw you as someone good enough to take everything out on.

visualize in your mind’s eye, this pure, beautiful soul that hadn’t even done anything wrong enough to deserve a villain origin story. not only do they deserve another chance (in this very moment, you can wish them all the love and happiness in the world for each of their future lifetimes) but this precious soul agreed to go through all of that, to become so hurt and so blinded, because that is the only way they could have ever brought themselves to treat you the way they did … turning you into the bad bitch you are today.

that’s something you should know. add it to the anthology. be humbled, be grateful, and send only love to anyone and everyone around you. these people agreed to help get you to where you were going, as best they could. even the worst ones, especially the worst ones.