Mariem Sherif

Love works in mysterious ways. Sadly, you do not always fall for the right ones.

Love is just around the corner.

This is for all the times you didn’t choose the easy way out and all the times you decided to fix up what broke.

It is okay to want to make a home out of a person. This was not your mistake. The mistake is forgetting that you are a home too and you should return to yourself every night and feel just as safe.

I hope you learn how to love someone for the way he likes to drink his tea or for the way he pulls an effort to show off something he has done. 

The mistake was that I wanted you to love me so much I forgot to love myself.

Your phone doesn’t ring. Social media is basically the only way you get in touch with others. The only way to show them that you’re alive. You believe that if you deactivated your online accounts no one would notice your absence.

Ever asked yourself that? Why some people hate themselves so much or why you are one of those people yourself?

Someone out there, like you, is waiting for another who wants to talk about favorite books.

Maybe I don’t want to stop loving you
Maybe I don’t even want to love anyone else

You see, if you really want to enjoy something it has to take its time.

I wanted us to end because part of me knew it that I deserve someone who is more than an almost lover.

I don’t believe in the whole “fall for someone who can make you happy” or “fall for the one who does this and that”. Somehow I think you can’t really tell someone who to fall for.

You learn that it’s okay to be afraid, to feel hurt, to not want to go to work, to feel disappointed and to drag yourself all around like you’re barely looking for a reason to live.

You know that delicate heart of yours, I know it has known suffering. But I saw it, I saw it as it looked sufferings in the eye and dared to survive them all and believe me, I’ve never seen anything more beautiful. 

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.