Maybe I actually needed you.

Maybe I needed you to adore me, to change your mind about me, to string me along, to play me, to challenge me, to leave me, to break me.

Maybe I needed you to be in my life, for that time, to make me stronger and better. I needed to be taught that lesson, so that I would never do that to someone else.

For that, I am learning to be thankful. And even more difficult than that, I am learning to forgive you.