There are so many things I wish I’d told you when I had the chance.
I grew up believing you were invincible, the person who always knew what to do, who never got tired, who never broke. But now that I’m older, I see the truth behind your strength: the quiet sacrifices, the swallowed tears, the way you carried the world and still smiled for us.
We don’t say I love you much. We never did.
Maybe that’s why I write these messages, the ones I’ll never send, the ones I wish you somehow already knew.
💌 Unsent Messages
1. I’m sorry for all the times I made you feel unappreciated. I didn’t realize that love can be loud in actions, even when it’s quiet in words.
2. I used to think you were too strict, too distant. Now I understand you were just doing your best with the love and fear you had.
3. I saw you cry once and I pretended not to. I wish I hadn’t. I wish I had told you it’s okay to not be strong all the time.
4. You gave up so much for me, and I never said thank you properly. I see it now — every meal, every night you stayed up, every dream you set aside.
5. Sometimes I wish we could talk like friends, not mother and child just two people who finally understand each other.
6. I know I’ve hurt you with my silence. Please know it was never because I didn’t care, I just didn’t know how to say what I felt.
7. You were the first person who loved me completely and I spent years trying to find that kind of love again, not realizing I already had it.
8. I’m sorry for blaming you for things you couldn’t change. You were human before you were my mother. I see that now.
9. I don’t remember every lesson you taught me, but I remember your voice. It still feels like home.
10. If I could send you one message, it would just say: I love you, even in the moments I didn’t know how to show it.
🌙 Closing Thoughts
Mothers rarely hear the things they deserve to know that they did enough, that their love mattered, that their mistakes were forgivable.
You gave me a life full of chances, even when you never had enough for yourself.
We don’t say it often, but I hope you can feel it in every small kindness, every time I try a little harder, every part of me that carries your strength.
You are the voice inside my heart that still whispers, keep going.
And I will.
Because you did.