Rania Naim

Here’s to the girls who are still learning that they matter.

I can’t wait for the day when we finally feel good enough. When we realize that we’re not broken or damaged or pathetic.

In a world teaching you how to be aloof, unattached and distant, be brave, vulnerable and attentive. Be the one who cares more. Be the one who says ‘I love you’ first.

I’m learning that maybe the universe is on my side and timing is not always a bitch.

Those who need love the most will always look for it in the wrong places. In the arms of the wrong people. In hearts that don’t want them. In people who don’t want to change.

Because the greatest pain of all is not learning how to survive, the greatest pain is expecting to play it safe all the time and hoping the world will play it safe with us too.

I firmly believe that love is not boring but the wrong relationship is.

The girl who has moved on doesn’t come back. She had to learn how to heal her own heart. She had to learn not to miss someone who doesn’t miss her.

Thank you for making our lives less terrifying. Thank you for making our darkness a little bit brighter.

Sometimes you have to save yourself. You have to mend your broken heart. You have to be the person who decides to change their own story and rewrites a new one. 

This fall, I’m letting go of the summer waves and the summer flings and everything that didn’t last.

She stopped calling because she realized that if she doesn’t call, you won’t.

I’m slowly learning to be okay with late arrivals, with things not being done on time, with delays and hurdles and starting over. I’m slowly learning how to let things expire.

When my mom asks me why I’m not married yet, I tell her that I’m still learning. I keep meeting people who teach me new lessons. They teach me how to grow. They teach me what I want. They teach me not to settle.

It’s time to start thinking that you can instead of you can’t. It’s time to start saying that you deserve it instead of doubting yourself.

I’ve changed, mainly because of you. I’ve grown so much. The years have changed me. Life was hard after you walked away but it gave me everything I needed to follow my dreams. To live a life I’m proud of.

I lost my loneliness. Feeling like I’m in this alone. Feeling like I can’t count on you. Feeling your absence more than your presence.

Sometimes pouring your heart out to people over and over again makes you feel empty.