Melisa Ergin

Every person you love in your lifetime has meaning. Every person you have loved entered your life for a reason, whether it was to teach you something or help you through something, or simply be there when you had no one else. No one you love is irrelevant.

The person who will put a smile on your face each and every day. That’s the person worth holding out for.

Date someone who makes you feel wanted.

Yes, your twenties are weird, but it’s that weirdness that makes them amazing. It’s the highs and lows that make them great.

Life isn’t filled with magical moments, and no one’s life is perfect. We all have our hurdles and we all have our battles. But that’s what makes life worth living.

We live in a generation full of women who don’t know how to love themselves. Women who are beautiful, clever and capable, but have fallen to the deception and lies that society has engrained so deeply into our minds that we don’t even realize it’s there.

I’m sick of building walls that are impenetrable. These walls were built to protect me. But I don’t want to be protected when it comes to you.

All good things must come to an end, and this is ours.

UN Women Pakistan’s new ‘#BeatMe’ campaign “brings an unconventional twist to the advocacy on women’s rights.” It aims to inspire women and reaffirm the idea that they are stronger than society leads them to believe.

“Have a baby. It’ll save your relationship.”

“The half-life of love is forever.”

“There is a crack in everything, that is how the light gets in.” RIP Leonard Cohen.

“To all of the little girls who are watching this, never doubt that you are valuable and powerful and deserving of every change and opportunity in the world to pursue and achieve your dreams.”

“People ask why women don’t report sexual assault. You got your answer: a man can have double digit accusers & still be elected President.” – @LizStrand

What’s even more disheartening is that as the final votes were counted, it became apparent that the people had elected Hillary Clinton, but the system elected Donald Trump.

It’s almost here. You can feel it when you walk down the streets. Heart rates are quickening and tensions are rising, and everyone is wondering the same thing. Who will win? What will it mean for America?

“The burden of the brutalized is not to comfort the bystander.”

I don’t expect too much. I just expect what’s fair.
I don’t want you to be a superhero. I just want you to be human.