Show me all of you.

I don’t want to just hear about your strengths. Tell me about your weaknesses. Your traumas. The lonely nights tossing and turning in bed. Tell me about the deep wounds in your heart. And the things you’ve done to try and deal with it all. We are not only our strengths. Nor are we only our weaknesses. We are all of them, and more. We are the meanings and lessons we choose to draw from our hardships.

Show me all of you.

Because it is the painful experiences that make us who we are. We are not only the good times we like to remember. We are also the hardships we want to ignore.

Pain and frustration is the wind and the rain that throughout the years carve us into the human beings we are today.

Show me all of you.

I will show you all of me.

by Jason Lam