Be the person you want to be. Who cares about the people that tell you that you can't do it-- won't do it. They're not you. They don't have control over your life.

     I don't know you, and neither do I know who you were before we had met. But all I know is that you shouldn't do that to yourself just because people talk about you. Talk about you being a different person than before.

     You don't deserve that for being the person you are. They don't understand. They don't know the hardships you've gone through because if they did, you wouldn't be like this.

     Who am I to judge, really? Who am I to say that you were a better person before? You're the one to decide.

     And careful--

     Words can heal or break you.