this ain't fantasy

No prince will come and rescue you. 

You have to rescue yourself.

You won't fall in love in a moment.

But your heart will be broken in one.

Once you decide to love, you won't stay passionately in love.

It's going to take some work.

No one will hear you cry at three in the morning and hold you and tell you it'll get better.

You have to get up, get a box of kleenex, and lie alone in the dark, waiting for your eyes to dry out.

No one will sacrifice everything to see you become the best you can be.

You've got to make yourself do it.

No one will take a bullet for you.

You're going to have to duck.

You won't succeed the first time.

You'll have to try dozens of times more.

You won't get better in a day.

It's going to take some time.

But it has to start now.

So stop believing the idealistic lies the movies tell you and pick yourself up off the floor.

And you tell yourself to try again.

And you tell yourself that it'll get better.

And you tell yourself that you are beautiful and wonderful and quite frankly, the best thing to happen to this world.

Because, eventually, maybe you'll believe yourself.

But you have to start now.

There's not enough time to be sad.

Trust me.

Because I believe in you.