Broken pieces.

I know that you know yourself better than anyone else in the world. You see all your flaws and quirks and they make you think less of yourself than other people because you don't see their flaws. You only see what they want you to see. We are all insecure. We each have things we want to hide. None of us are completely comfortable being our true selves. Even those of us who are comfortable being ourselves have moments of doubt and weakness. None of us is perfect but we see other people as perfect. We don't see other people as complex people. John Green taught me that. We are so much more willing to forgive others than we are to forgive ourselves. We try not to let people see our flaws. But we have to let SOME people in. We can't go through this life without doing so. These people have more power than they even realize. Because we let them see our broken pieces, they have the power to build us up because of them, or destroy us because of them. We are more willing to believe them than our own hearts. That's why we must be careful when people share their secrets and broken pieces with us. They trust us to help them not to make them feel worse. We have more power than we realize, we have to decide: Are we going to use that power for good? Or are we going to crush them?