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Whoever You Are

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Dear Stranger,

You are loved.

I know that at times it can be hard to understand or accept that fact, but it is true. That laugh you feel is too loud is all that gets someone through the day. That extensive rock collection you have spent years developing and labeling will make someone squeal with delight. I'm not even just talking about romantic love. I'm talking about not being invisible. I'm talking about being worth a damn even though you are only one of billions. The overwhelming numbers that crush you under the weight of your seeming insignificance distract you from complex and sometimes entirely missed interactions and connections in your life.  If you feel you are alone, if you feel like you have done nothing with your life, I assure you that you're wrong. You have touched someone, somewhere. You have influenced countless lives. When you apologized to a stranger on the street when you bumped into him, you reminded him that there is still such a thing as courtesy in this world. You will never know how much it meant to that faceless username when you stayed in the chatroom all night letting her expel everything she had been holding in about her parents and job and boyfriend. A touch of your hand, a smile, a kind word... just a casual glance has meant something to someone who felt like no one even knew he was there. Gestures and phrases you feel are just you being you, going down your own lonely path, connect you to others in ways that none of you will ever really understand, but the connection is there nonetheless. You can never be alone.

If that is not enough, if you need something specific, a source to look to as proof of my words, then know this: I love you. I don't love you for who you are because I don't know you. I don't love you for what you've done because I haven't seen it. I love you because you deserve it. I love you because you are on this earth same as I am, trying to find your way and sometimes feeling lost. I love you because you want and dream and hope and you amaze me in your humanness. I love you because... just because.

Remember, stranger. Remember always: you are loved.

-Stephanie
All right, I started this thing called the "30 Day Letter Challenge" back in 2010, but got out of it pretty quickly. I've been meaning to get back to it, and last night I finally wrote the next letter in the list. :D

Day 6- A Stranger
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You never know who you have touched in this world.