Day 22: Someone you want to give a second chance.

Dear someone I want to give a second chance to,

I've kinda touched on this subject before, I guess, but I'll do it again.

For almost everyone, I will give you a second chance. I'll give you a third. I'll give you as many as it takes. I will. Maybe I'm naive, maybe I'm stupid, maybe I trust too much, maybe I'll get hurt. But I still do it. I don't really know why I do it (sitting here thinking about it...), but I think it's just because I believe that people deserve second chances. Nobody is all bad. People make mistakes. They regret them. I like to give them a chance to redeem themself and stay in my life. I have no problem with forgive and forget.

Of course, there does come a point where, for myself, I have to stop it. Because I can't just let myself be abused, and I can't let someone who is poisonous take over my life. So. I guess then, I do cut people out. (I feel bad about the ones that've gone that way, though.)

I don't know. I guess it's all about timing. The timing of where you are in your life with where I am in mine. You'll get your chance when everything falls into place. When you're ready, and I'm ready, it'll happen. Things will click. Or it won't, and we'll drift apart. But of course, that's another letter.

For now, though, it's all in the past. If you want to, we'll start fresh. I mean, that's what I'm thinking now, at least. And I guess my message here, for all of you, is that I'm here. I'm not saying things will go back to wherever we'd left them before the first chance ran out, but we can start working on it. I'm here, and the chance is out on the table. Whenever you're ready.

Maybe that's not a good thing, ultimately, or a good way to be, I guess...but I don't know myself any other way.

Ready when you are,
-Lauren