Lauren Jarvis-Gibson

Putting yourself through strict diets. Life is too short to eat nothing but low fat everything. Eat in moderation and enjoy that chocolate bar every once in a while.

So please, speak up for yourself. Please treat yourself like gold. You are a wonderful, strong human being. You are not a piece of meat. You are not just a body. You are not something to be forgotten. And you are not something to be tossed to the side of the road.

We ruin love by wanting it too much. Relationships aren’t meant to be rushed. Relationships aren’t meant to be forced. And love isn’t just something to check off your list.

You didn’t know it at the time. You didn’t know you were going to lose the one thing that you wanted to keep the most.

Being in a relationship isn’t going to make you any happier if you aren’t happy with yourself first.

Learn that the amount of likes you get on a photo should never determine how good or how bad you feel about yourself that day.

Fall again and again. Stop being so afraid of the end result. Stop hesitating just out of comfort. Take that plunge. Dive headfirst into what you want out of your life. Stop making excuses. And just jump.

When they ask you why you left her, bite your already short nails and try to come up with a good enough answer.

It can’t be understood. It can’t be explained. Because when your best friend turns into a stranger overnight, any logic that you have goes out the window.

Remember the world that shined so brightly before he stole kisses from you in the night. And remember who you were before he left a hurricane in every piece of your heart.

I think casual relationships can work for some people. Some people can find pleasure and fun out of it. But, it’s not for me. I refuse to be the one tossed aside for other people to have their cake and eat it too. I refuse to be on the sidelines.

Maybe they were meant to show you that love is fleeting, but that when it is meant to be, love doesn’t leave. And love won’t run away.