There are people who love who you are right now: they see your gifts and the person you are at your core. And by you, yourself, thinking you need to be perfect in order to receive any love from them, you're closing yourself off from what you deserve. You're overanalyzing a situation and striving for perfection that doesn't exist, while denying yourself what your heart truly wants...

It can be so much easier to isolate ourselves, convince ourselves that we're better on our own to avoid heartbreak, but we lose any sort of connection there could have been. While healing can inadvertently throw us into isolation in order to reflect, we need to come out of hiding sometimes to see how loved we are. To see how valued we are. To see that we're not alone...