These words were written by John Pavellavitz, but they were meant for you.

Dear friend, I don't know you, but I know something about you, and I know you're tired.

I know you live with demons, ones that are close and loud.

I know how relentless they are in their pursuit of you.

I know that you spend your days trying to silence them and your nights trying to hide from them and the hell that they put you through.

Most of all, I know how hard you work to hide it all, to pretend you're fine, to paint a convincing smile upon your face and to act as if all as well with your battered soul.

I know that all of this has left you exhausted, that you've numbed yourself and hurt yourself and starved yourself in hopes that those voices would become silent and their fists would be lifted and you finally could breathe again.

I know that right now it doesn't seem like that moment will ever come.

I know right now you'd rather leave than live.

And even though I'm not standing in your shoes and even though I don't know you and even though I have no right at all, I am asking you to stick around.

I'm asking you to stay, please, to endure your incredibly painful, totally senseless now, because...

I can see you gloriously, blindingly beautiful then, if you do.

If you stick around, you will reach a spot that the sadness won't let you see right now.

You will reach tomorrow and that place is filled with possibility.

It's a day you've never been to. It's not this terrible day.

There, you will not feel exactly what you're feeling right now.

You will be stronger. You'll see things differently. You're going to find a clearing and life may look away, it hasn't looked in a long time.

It may look like it's worth staying for.

Stay. Hang on. You are loved. Things will get better. This is a plea. It's a promise. It's a dare. An invitation.

Tomorrow is a place where hope lives and I want you to give yourself a chance to share that space.

With that hope. To dance with it, to rest with it, to dream within it because you deserve it.

If you stick around, you'll travel to amazing places that will take your breath away and you'll see sunsets that have yet to be painted in the evening sky.

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