(Sorry this letter came late)

Hey,

I know that you're hurting. I know that you're sad and you feel so alone sometimes. I know that a lot has been happening in your life lately. You've had to make some changes and you haven't been yourself. I know that you occasionally turn to your vices and that sometimes you feel like the whole entire world is against you. I know you feel like you're alone, lost in the sadness, misery, and chaos of heartbreak.

Well, I'm here to remind you that you are never alone. Your pain is my pain. Your fight is my fight. You're my friend, and that means that what you feel, I feel too. If you need someone to talk to at 1:00 in the morning, I'm probably already up. If you need a shoulder to cry on, it's right here. If you need someone to just be by your side, silent, not saying a word, I'm a text away. If you just need someone or anything at all, I want to be the person that you always turn to.

There are very few things that hurt more than watching someone you love hurt.

So, this is my promise to you: that I'll fight by your side until you're not hurting anymore. You're still going to have days that hurt SO BAD. You're probably still going to have days when the thing that makes you so sad still haunts you, looking over your shoulder as you try to go on about your business. But I promise you that you will never go a day without me being by your side, helping you through all of the bad life throws at you.

Quite often, I've found myself in the same dark cave you feel like you're drowning in, but the surface and shore are always closer than they seem. Especially when you aren't swimming alone. I promise you that you'll never have to swim by yourself.

I will not let you fight alone and I will not fight against you. I will always be by your side to help you fight your demons one by one until you can close your eyes at night and sleep without having to even think about them. When you destroy yourself or put yourself down, I will not judge you, I will not tell you to get over it, and I will not let you feel one tiny bit of guilt. I will smother your hurt with love and compassion and every other positive emotion I can think of, because you deserve them all. When you're happy, I'm happy and I promise you that we'll find peace together. I love you too much to let what is hurting you envelope you.

I just want you to really take the time to be lost in your broken heart. There's no way to get over the pain if you don't even want to acknowledge that you're hurting. Pain is awful and ugly and more often than not, scary but it's not a wall too big to get over. Having a broken heart doesn't mean that you're a broken person.

As much as I wish I could just take away your pain, hurt, and sadness, I can't. Although, I can love you through it. And that's what I have every intention of doing. You have too much to look forward to, too much to live for, to fall even deeper into this hole. But, I've brought the shovels to help start digging you out.

Yours ever,
Me.