Dear M,

I wish you knew how important you really are, especially to the people around you. I know you feel like you are unlovable, but you are loved so much more than you will ever know.

I wish you would give yourself more credit where it is due. You are one of the smartest people I have ever met, yet you don’t use it to your advantage. Not only that, but you are so unbelievably gifted when it comes to drawing and art. I am amazed at some of the things I have seen you do, and yet you let that gift stand in the background.

I wish you could see all the potential you have. You set the standards for yourself so low, and I wish you would realize all of the things you could do with the gifts you have been blessed with.

I wish I had been better to you when we were growing up. I know you tended to be obnoxious at times and you knew just how to get under my skin but I still could have been much more patient with you.

I wish you realized how much more you are worth than you give yourself credit for. I know you question a lot about yourself, and you wish you could be different, but you are perfect just the way you are and being anyone or anything different would only dim the beauty you hold.

More than anything I wish you realized how much more life has to offer than how you perceive it. While things may have not been easy for you, I wish you would realize that there is more to life than the things you have been through.

I want you to learn to appreciate the things that make life so worth it.

I want you to witness what it feels like to be truly and deeply loved. I want you to experience things you never in your wildest dreams imagined. I want you to be able to face your fears head on and be strong enough to be able to say that nothing can stop you. I want you to make it through this, so you can prove to everyone who has doubted you that you are stronger than they think. Because I know you are.

I wish you could see yourself through my eyes. Because you are so much more than you give yourself credit for.