I Found My Way Back to Me
"Now, I've taken back the love I had lost for myself."
There was a time when I had lost myself completely in someone else's love…
I had forgotten my own identity.
His smile, his messages, his presence —
That had become my whole world.
But when he left…
It wasn’t just a person who walked away.
My smile, my peace, and even my sense of self — all vanished with him.
Every day I would scold myself —
"Why am I not enough?
Why am I always ignored?
Why didn’t I get back the love I gave?"
But in all those tears, one truth was quietly whispering —
"You gave love, but forgot to love yourself."
So what did I do next?
I forgave myself.
I asked my past to pause a while.
I looked in the mirror and told myself —
"You are enough.
Your worth isn’t defined by anyone’s acceptance.
Now, you are your own companion."
The love I once begged for from others —
I now started giving it to myself.
What is love?
Yes, love means standing by someone,
Crying with them in pain,
Becoming theirs — all of that is true.
But the truest love?
It starts with yourself.
If you don't love yourself,
You can never give someone else your whole heart.
How am I now?
Yes, the memories still come back.
Sometimes my eyes still fill up.
But now, those memories don’t break me —
They remind me of my strength.
I no longer lower myself for anyone.
I don’t sit waiting for replies.
I love… but now I love me.
So here’s what I want you to remember —
Put yourself first in your own life.
Don’t give anyone such a place in your heart,
That you end up losing yourself.
Love yourself — not because the world tells you to,
but because you truly deserve it.