If I had to give you one piece of advice, it would be this: don’t be intimidated by other people’s opinions. — Paulo Coelho

I forgive the anger and the cruelty,

I love you like a river that begins as a solitary trickle in the mountains and gradually grows and joins other rivers until, after a certain point, it can flow around any obstacle in order to get where it wants.

I forgive the stillborn hopes,