Nikita Gill

For even when you are at your worst, even through this I will love you.

I wondered what to do with this universe you abandoned. Was it dead because you had left it? Can you bury a universe? Does a universe get its own grave?

Healing is not a competition in any way, shape or form. You do not need to be in any hurry because someone else who survived the same trauma as you has healed faster than you. Your trauma journey is individual to you.

First impressions are not last impressions. If I judged everyone I knew based on first impressions, I would not have the lasting friendships I have today.

The cruelest thing someone can do is convince you that you will be enough for them.

I have never understood why some people feel the need to get territorial over and play games with other people’s partners. Even when they have their own. It doesn’t matter if you were friends with the guy before he got a girlfriend or a girl before she got a boyfriend, there are some lines you just do not cross.

Women supporting each other is the most nurturing, wonderful, brilliant thing, it builds lasting friendships and life long loves.

The thing is, human beings, we are incredibly resilient. We have dealt with great pain and heartache and still manage to recover. Sure, maybe we are broken. Maybe we are lost. But my God, do we recover from the terrible things that try to destroy us.

Believe me, more people will respect you for saying something than for allowing something you are uncomfortable with for the sake of being nice.

You have so much magic locked up inside you, all these dark forces preventing it from coming out.

Life is about more than work and marriage and success. It’s about being a good person. It is about appreciating every person that enters and exits your life whilst you have them. It is about living a wholesome life tailored to you. It’s about making mistakes and learning from them. It’s about falling in love with the wrong people so when the right ones come along you know how to appreciate them.

Your parents have literally no clue what they’re doing when things go awry. Seriously though, since you’re the first, they’re also learning how to be parents for the first time. So sometimes, things go off handbook (like I don’t know, you take a ball of wool and turn the entire house into a giant spiderweb and then crouch on a doorway pretending to be a spider. Not speaking from experience or anything.), your parents don’t really know whether to laugh or to punish you

The truth is, you deserve to be loved. Even now, with all of your flaws. However difficult you think you are, there is someone out there who will love you. 

The skin that you are in is beautiful. You don’t have to be lighter. You don’t have to be darker. You don’t have to lose your scars. You don’t need to hide your stretch marks. You don’t need to wear make up unless you like it.

Pieces of you are implanted
in my mind, you carved holes
for warmth inside my bones
and you sail within my blood.

You see, I focussed too much on what I gave, and not what I was taking in return.

You have forged yourself. From the very womb of your sadness, from the womb of your old self, you have come out, borne of blood and pain.

Look for the kind of love that makes you grow in every way you can.