Whatever happens in this life, and whatever is currently happening, or (worst of all) soon going to happen, you are here. Now. And your younger self has been faithful to you like no other, and brought you here to this moment where you are still breathing air. 

Even when you have no one else to call, no one else to trust, no one else at all. Even then, YOU are here with you, and the evidence of your trustworthiness to yourself is this very sacred instant. You’re here for you. You’ve always been here. Always figured it out. You’ve always survived, even when you couldn’t take another step. You’ve gathered and sowed and planned and sweated and scraped and burned an olive grove’s-worth of midnight oil mixed with the tears of “can’t ever do enough”.  YOU did that. And you’ll be there for YOU again. There for HER. She-who-is obviously and deeply worthy of your effort. YOU.