What I wrote him...

I refuse to be helpless, needy, clingy, and bitter. There is more to me than that. I'm going to do what I want and what I've always dreamed of doing/becoming... it's time for me to celebrate my God-given rights and use my strengths to empower my life, and let my weaknesses be only a reminder that I am human--nothing more. I will not let them impede me.