You may not feel like it today, but someone you used to be is looking at you with so much pride. You’re the proud that she made it. The you who cried, who hoped, who held on – she’d be in awe of who you’ve become. The girl you used to be never stopped believing in you. Even on your hardest days, you are still her dream come true.

Theres a version of you: younger, softer, optimistic who used to dream about the life you’re living now.

Maybe she didn’t have all the details right.

Maybe she imagined different clothes, different people, a different path.

But what she really longed for wasn’t the specifics — it was the feeling.

Freedom. Growth. Confidence. Peace… whether or not you see it right now, you’ve given her more of that than you realise.

It’s so easy to get caught up in what’s still missing.

The goals unmet, the ways you feel behind, the pressure to be more, do more, prove more.

Try to remember: you are already someone’s dream come true. The strength you’ve built. The love you’ve learned to give yourself. The decisions you’ve made that broke patterns and healed generations. She would look at you with nothing but awe.

So when the doubt creeps in, when the noise gets loud, come back to her. The younger you — who believed in magic, who trusted without proof, who hoped even when things hurt.

She’s still in there 🧡and she sees you.

You don’t need to do anything more to earn her love.

You already are the person she was waiting for.

Ellie Bracken