To the client of a working girl,
I’ve heard of you in many places this last year. I’ve walked the streets you walked, and probably shared the same restaurants too, but I didn’t really see you until this month.
I don’t know how you felt the day I saw you and you saw me too. I don’t know if I made you uncomfortable, angry, or embarrassed, you may have felt nothing seeing me standing there, but I had so many thoughts and emotions when I looked at you.
I stood outside that brothel and watched you drink your beer. I started to wonder if you had just got done, if you were about to go in, or if maybe it was both. I wondered what it was that brought you to this place. Were you lonely? Felling unwanted or unloved? Is there a wife at home who has no idea what you do on your business trips? Or was this just a guys vacation?
I wondered if you felt anything when you were with that woman. Do you actually see her as a human or just an object? Do you care that you are taking advantage of something that isn’t yours to have? Do you really even care at all?
I stood there looking at you and thought I would have feelings of anger and frustration, but all I felt was compassion. You have no idea that I wasn’t looking at you to judge you. I was looking at you because I was praying for you specifically.
I prayed that you would one day feel what true love is from the One who created you. I prayed you would see the woman you were with as a person. I prayed that you would never step foot into a brothel ever again.
I prayed for you because I am praying for her too. I pray that she is given an opportunity to never have to use her body for work ever again. That she too can feel what true love is from the One who says she is fearfully and wonderfully made. That she knows what it is like to be seen as a human and not an object.
So to the client of a working girl, I’m praying that someday this letter makes it to you. Weather it’s through the internet or if somehow we ever met again, I hope you know that no matter how lonely or unloved you may feel, there’s someone out there praying specifically for you.
Sincerely,
Averi
