Thank You

thank you for the heartbreak
thank you for the times you left me lying awake at night
wondering if you were thinking about me the same way i was thinking about you.
because without the times i felt the world was a rug being pulled from my feet,
i wouldn't be able to appreciate the skip in my heart when you walk in.

thank you for the scars
the scars both seen and unseen
the constant reminder that i can't change the past
and that sometimes i don't want to

thank you for pushing me away
thank you for making me feel insufficient
because i sold my soul for a moment of popularity
and lost it all because of a difference.
but now i live each moment like its my last
and i no longer care what you think

thank you to the ones who choose to be losers
my best friends
for teaching me life is only worth living
if you're doing it for yourself
because the only one in my way is me

thank you for the rejection
thank you for stealing my heart and throwing it away
thank you for leaving me on the curb
because dating you would have been the worst mistake of my life
i never saw past the plastic smile and the forced laughs
to hide how you really felt about me

thank you for nothing
because there's nothing left to lose

so to those i lost for love
to those who treated me like dirt
to those who labeled me
to those who judged me
to those i can't love to save my friends
to my parents
to my classmates
to the world
i say



for making me who i am today