You Deserve to Move On from The Life That Betrayed You

You deserve to make room for the people who love you and lift you up. The ones who support you, celebrate you, motivate you to be better. The ones who drop everything to be by your side when you need them even if you haven’t seen each other in months. 

You deserve to move on from the life that betrayed you. The one who lied to you, cheated on you, let you down. The one who made you feel like you were crazy because they couldn’t admit their wrongdoings to anyone else, not even themselves. You need to clear darkness from your heart to create space for someone who will light it up.

You deserve to find the one who respects you and care for you. The one whose presence amplified the living life you already lead. Someone who will be your partner, bringing out the best in you. 

You deserve to move one from the job that no longer fulfils you. The one that no longer helps you learn, grow or change. The one that no longer excites you because you need to feel like you are living up to a higher potential. You deserve to pursue the passion that drives you. The one that makes you strive, reach and hope. The one that sparks a fire within you and inspires you to use your skills to help make the world a better place.

You deserve to move on from the past that haunts you. The memories, experiences and feelings that hold you back. The days that turned into months of regret, pain or sadness. Everything that no longer serves you.

You deserve to move forward in a bright blaze of glory. Pacing your own way, finding your own happiness, making new memories. Knowing that you too deserve everything good and beautiful the world has to offer. Viewing each new day as an opportunity to take these things and make them yours.

You deserve to be supported. To be lifted up. You deserve to be challenged. You deserve to grow. To be fulfilled. You deserve to discover. To let go. You deserve to move on because you, as much as anyone else, deserve to be happy.

So, instead of focusing on the people who left, focus on the people in your life who have chosen to be there. Focus on the ones who stayed, in the ones who appreciate you and respect you. Focus on the people who match the love you give them. Focus on the people who empower you and grow you and make your life beautiful. Do not lose touch of what you have, chasing what you no longer do.

However, you do not have to hate them. You do not have to remember their contribution to your life as anything but beautiful. Do not ruin them in your mind, do not grip until you feel resentment. Instead love them without attachment. Love the lessons they taught you. Wish them well every time you think about them. Miss them but do not ache for them to come back. If the people in your life left because they were not ready to value you, or love you or be there for you, do not ask them to be more than they can be at the moment. Wish them to grow. They are on their own journey, a journey you are not a part of. And that is okay.

Trust me when I say you will miss out on beautiful things if you continue to stay rooted in all the ways you were wronged. Do not close yourself off to your pots. Open yourself to the world and allow for it to fill that space with the kinds of people, the kinds of moments, the kinds of experiences that exhilarate you, that compel you, that make you love yourself, love your life, and what you have to offer more and more each day.