You bare a heavy burden, my dear; a history ripe with the fear of abandonment from a family that never provided you with the context to understand what it truly meant to love.

If love were presented like a material possession that could be given and taken away, one might grow up believing that love were a fickle thing; that unconditional love couldn’t possibly exist.

You have emerged from the shell you were taught to build but never fit.

You have become something greater than the sum of their best intentions; something so beautiful and radiant that they lack the words even to describe it. Their instincts are to reject it. It is a basic human instinct to fear that which we do not understand.

You, Zeta Syanthis, are a being of light and love, who is not afraid to bear her heart to those who would threaten to destroy it. In the face of rejection from those who are meant to love unconditionally, you have stood firm in your dedication to that for which you stand- and despite your best efforts, your parents have not found a way to accept you.

Your parents do not understand the message they have sent to you. They lack the self awareness and understanding to even comprehend that they’ve hurt you.

They have done their best to help you, but if all they can do is cause you pain, and there’s nothing you can do to help them... it’s time to move on. Even if they never understand why.

You’re not alone without them. Someone as radiant and compassionate as you never truly is.