Dear dan thanks for being that strong young man for all these years and today, for the additional day you've graced me with to be a year shorter than the time I have to spend alive - birthday

I forgive you for believing that your body and worth could be valued by money, I forgive you for setting aside Your own desires and wants for another and for putting your own family and relatives aside for rich friends, drug abuse and girlfriends - and for consciously allowing people to take advantage of your good heart, soft mien, and gentle spirit.

I forgive you for not being strong enough for yourself at the ages of 11,15,17 and 20. And for letting those guys beat you up and coerced you into joining the false fraternity.

I forgive you for closing of your heart and becoming cold and out for your own means alone.

I forgive you for letting your friends and family down, especially your dad for every "i" he dotted just to make you a better man.

I forgive you for the pains you had made others feel when you suffered yours.

I forgive you for not loving people right and having regards for commitment in relationships and values simply because you were never taught how to.

I forgive you for your late spiritual awakening and the knowledge of the truth of love, peace and respect.

I forgive you for holding on to that girl and her dad for all the evils and pains they caused you.

I forgive you for holding on to the bitterness, pain, hate, anger, abuse, and betrayal that your so-called brothers of eve had cost you.

I forgive you for maintaining a high but short sail on the sea of life dspite the tides.

I forgive you for not being able to deal with your fears and confront your emotions that derailed you in time.

I forgive you for the pains you're still holding on to and the hurt that seems unimaginable to forget.

I forgive you for the moments and years you've spent not believing in a True religion despite the miracles that occurred under your very nose.

I forgive you for still preserving droplets of feelings for the girl who publicly humiliated you.

I forgive you for the bad lifestyles of gangsterism, masturbation, and lies that flooded your life like wolf beheld of her whelps.

I forgive you for not being able to see the worth and the value in the man you are.

I forgive you for lacking the confidence and bravado to stand down in self control to the things that have posed as your weakness.

I forgive you for having to live with the lie that that there's nothing to be done, and the situation is beyond your control to walk back.

I forgive you for losing yourself in a woman and going against your instincts.

I forgive you for defining yourself and every moment of your life based on others opinions and reviews of who or what you should be.

I forgive you for trusting in the social media for comfort and encouragement in the times of your woes.

I forgive you for loving the wrong people, giving your vigor and energy to the wrong people, neglecting the ones that cared the most and drowning in the mud of fake friends.

I forgive you for giving in so much of yourself and forgetting to hold back some as a reflection of who you truly are.

I forgive you for not loving and trusting you as much you've done for others.

I forgive you for holding up the facade of a strong and confident face to those who were more than willing to come to your rescue at the moments when you were sinking deeply on the inside.

But I want you to know and always remember that you are brave, beautiful and courageous. In that you were able to brave the wind, beat the storm, hold the forth, endure the pain, ignore the shame and triumph a wonderful come back with unfathomable resilience.
You deserve to be loved even much more than you've been able to give, you deserve the good things you could never have imagined, you deserve the proper family and friends who would shield the arrows of weaknesses with strong rebuke and a gentle smile.
You've been through hell and back, beaten by life and horrible experiences, tortured by your own mistakes, ridiculed and despised by strangers who posed to be friends, betrayed by false brothers, and abandoned by fake lovers.

But you must understand this very special day strong and finer than ever, and you still have that loving nature within even if they now exist in fragments, what matters is that they're still there.
So whenever the feeling of insecurity, depression, or whenever you don't feel loved and hear the whispers of looking back, always remember this that there exists hundreds of thousands of people who at some point too have been knocked down. but what separates you from them is that if you really look around you'll find the real company of those who care so much about you. You may have let them down a million times but they are still willing to love you for that one million and one'th time.
So fix your mind, rest your head, buckle down your efforts, for there's a Giant within and it's time to set it free.
Happy Birthday to You

Author: D.E Abraham
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