“You’re not extra. You’re essential to someone’s unfolding — even if you don’t see it yet.”
There are days when it feels like your presence doesn’t matter.
Like the world would spin the same without you.
Like nothing you do changes anything.
But feelings are not facts.
And your existence — your breath, your story, your small acts of grace — ripples out in ways you may never witness.
You are someone’s reminder that gentleness exists.
You are a quiet anchor in someone else’s storm.
You are a piece of the larger mosaic — and without you, something would be missing.
You don’t need to earn your place.
You don’t need to be doing well to be worthy.
You just need to stay.
Stay, not because every moment feels good.
Stay because your story isn’t finished.
Stay because someone out there is one honest conversation, one soft presence, one shared silence away from remembering *they* matter too.
You’re not a mistake.
You’re a medicine — simply by being.
Place a hand over your heart. With each breath, repeat: 'I belong here.' Let the words land in your body — even if they feel foreign at first.
Reach out to someone today — not for advice, but to remind them they matter. In doing so, you remind yourself, too.
Rae H. “I felt so pointless lately. But when I messaged my friend just to say hi, she said it was the best part of her day. That reminder was everything.”
You don’t have to feel needed to *be* needed.