If you’re anything like me, you struggle with admitting how you feel. Instead of wearing your heart on your sleeve, you keep your cards close to your chest. Your sensitive nature can cause you to get upset easily — even over the littlest things. Worry is the main emotion that can simply cloud your mind at any moment. Although it’s easy for you to pinpoint irrational feelings, the hardest part is overcoming them.

That’s why you hide. Why you keep your feelings bottled up, because it’s hard to explain those feelings to others when you know the senselessness behind them. Even with that understanding, it is nearly impossible to shake them.

People sometimes question these feelings. They can sympathize with the concerns, but they can never truly feel empathy for you without real knowledge of your struggles.

However, through all of the worry and anxiety, those mindsets you have come from a place of love. Almost everything you feel stems from your caring personality. When you do care, you care with everything you have. It’s your compassion and affection that drive you to dote on the things that are most important to you.

Love consumes you. It is a rare thing for you to truly love someone or something, but when you do it it’s with the fiercest passion.

You show you care in very particular ways, trying your best to never let others doubt how you feel. Yet this causes your need of assurance. If someone doesn’t remind you of their feelings for you, it is easy for you to assume they are not there. Whether it’s due to low self-esteem or past heartbreaks, you find it hard to imagine someone caring for you as powerfully as you feel for them, even if it’s blatant.

While you know these assumptions are far fetched, you can’t help but feel them in the end. Ultimately, this leads you to never express your concerns because, through your fits of pride, you will almost never admit to being upset or distressed.

If you’re anything like me, it can be easy for you to get caught up in these feelings and emotions and forget important things about yourself and your mindsets.

That’s why if you’re anything like me, you need to know that all of your feelings are valid. It’s OK to worry when you know you don’t have to, just don’t let that worry consume you. Continue to love and care the way you do because passion like that is hard to find. Know that people show they care in different ways, and although you are particular about the way you do it, and others may see it differently, but that doesn’t mean they don’t care. But above all, accept that people are capable of loving you just as strongly as you love them because you are every bit deserving of that love.