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The individual who knows the score about life sees difficulties as opportunities
Norman Vincent Peale
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90 reasons
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1. I’m going to wear a bikini like all the other girls
2. I’m going to wear shorts and skirts
3. I’m going to feel confident in my ballet clothes, and not cry that you can see my cuts and scars
4. I’m not going to cry when I look in the mirror
5. I’m going to like what I see in the mirror, instead of hating it
6. I’m going to know in my heart that I truly have beaten this, and I am stronger than my addiction.
7. I’m not going to feel anxious and worried all the time
8. I’m going to feel confident with who I am and how I look
9. I’m going to appreciate who I was because it will have made me who I am
10. I can stop lying to people I love
11. I’m going to stop lying to myself
12. I’m going to smile for real
13. I’m going to be independent, with no reliance on a blade.
14. I’m going to stop feeling so pathetic
15. I’m going to actually want to be alive, and enjoy my life
16. I’m going to stop feeling so guilty
17. I’m going to be myself, not who depression and cutting has made me
18. I want people to look up me
19. I want to let others know that they can beat this too
20. I want to be able to go swimming
21. I want to not have to answer awkward questions
22. I wont have to feel so much shame
23. I want to have kids, and I don’t want to have to explain to them that I hurt myself
24. I’m going to change for sports like everyone else- and not have to wait for a cubicle so I can hide my cuts
25. So the only blades I like are on the bottom of my ice skates
26. I can tell the truth about how I’m feeling
27. I will stop feeling so insecure
28. I will stop feeling so numb and sad
29. I will have hope
30. I’m going to be happy. Honestly
31. I will be easier to love
32. I will be normal and cope with things like other people
33. I will be able to concentrate and take more of a part in everyday life
34. I will never have to stay home from school because I’ve had a terrible night
35. The meaning of the word cutting will go back to stealing a spot in the canteen line
36. My parents would be proud of me instead of ashamed
37. So I can having a healthy mentality
38. So I can have healthy relationships with friends and family
39. So that self-harm will never get in the way of anything ever again
40. I can put on whatever clothes I feel like, and not have to worry about whether it will cover my scars or not
41. I will stop hurting my friends and family
42. Not that I would, but if I wanted I could wear a belly top
43. People who care wont have to worry anymore
44. I will be in control of my life, not SHing
45. I wont have to hide cuts, blood and blades
46. I wont have to do my own washing
47. No more stupid thoughts
48. People wont have to watch what they say around me
49. So I can be proud of who I am
50. I want to be able to sleep properly at night
51. I’ll be able to let love back into heart and stop pushing people away
52. I will trust again and let people in
53. So that I wont accidentally go too far when Shing
54. My stomach might one day heal and I can eat ice cream
55. My brain might heal and I will be able to remember things
56. I wont be paranoid about whether people can tell or not
57. I wont feel like I’m letting the people who care about me down every time
58. One day I will be able to have someone who can look me up and down, seeing all my scars and faults and still think I’m beautiful
59. I don’t want to feel broken anymore
60. I want to know that I will make it through the night
61. I don’t want to be haunted by nightmares of suicide and death
62. I don’t want to be haunted by nightmares of my past, and I want the flashbacks to stop
63. I want to feel in control of my body, I never want to have a fit again
64. I don’t want to be a scared and frightened little girl anymore
65. I don’t want to shake when I see the Stanley knives at school
66. I’m not going to have the attitude of “the glass is half empty, cracked, and leaking”
67. I’m going to stop being afraid of people touching me
68. I want 100 cuts to turn into 10, instead of the other way around.
69. I’m going to stop hyperventilating
70. I’m going to be okay when I’m alone. I wont have to rely on other people.
71. I will stop having to dedicate a whole draw in my bathroom to medical supplies and pills. I will be able to put all my ribbons in this draw when I have beaten this.
72. I can be a role model for my little cousins.
73. People wont be able to use it as black mail against me
74. I wont feel like a freak
75. I will feel worth something
76. I will be able to accept the love offered to me by others without feeling guilty because I don’t deserve it
77. I will be able to focus on helping other people with their problems, instead of crumbling under the weight of my problems plus theirs.
78. I can support others, and not just have to find people to support me
79. To never cry myself to sleep again
80. I want to have hopes and dreams again, not just praying I’ll make it through day, or at best, the week.
81. I’m going to let go of the past, and the people who hurt me
82. To be able to do couple stuff without him pulling away from me. Or the guy getting angry that I’ve ruined my body.
83. I want to have such fragile emotions
84. I want to be able to hold my head high, instead of always looking at the ground
85. People wont think I’m an attention-seeker
86. I will be able to get out the paracetamol, knowing that I will stop at two, because that is all I need to get rid of my headache
87. I will stand at the top of sky scrapers and not be tempted to jump
88. My hand will stop automatically going to my heart when I look at my butchers knife
89. I’m going to believe people when they tell me I look nice etc and accept compliments
90. I’m going to wake up in the morning and think “great a new day” instead of wishing I had just never woken up. - 2058 Views
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Lovely, lovely, reasons. All the best wishes to you!