Rania Naim

But here’s what I learned about settling and staying quiet when you should speak up, it doesn’t win you any more friends, it doesn’t make you a likable person and it doesn’t make you a cooler person, it only makes people take you for granted.

The only good thing about remembering who you really are is that you get to choose what you can take back with you and what you can leave behind. You get to decide which parts are worth fighting for and which parts need to go.

“The ultimate cliché, I think the wrong guys can be so right if they want to, and that’s the hope I always hold on to; the day they decide to be right so we can be right for each other.”

Because my silence is more dangerous than my words, my silence can destroy much more than my words ever will. My silence means you’re no longer the one who’s occupying my thoughts and you’re no longer worth the noise.

Maybe the only word that’s left unsaid between us is goodbye. And maybe I have to say it first before you leave without saying a word like you always do.

You don’t know how to be kind to yourself. You don’t know how to relax, how to praise yourself, how to give yourself a pat on the back or how to forgive yourself.

Because there can’t be any more ‘maybes’ between us; we’ve wasted them all. There can’t be any more trials or chances, there can’t be any more years wasted on trying to make this work.

But more than anything, thank you for making me feel safe in knowing that wherever life takes me, I can always come back to you. I can always find a home in you.

But let me tell you this, when a girl comes to you and hands you her heart in all honesty and tells you that she likes you or that she wants more, that girl has no time for games.

Now you’re scared — scared of making another wrong decision, scared of continuing the path you started in your early twenties of falling for people who are wrong for you thinking you’ll change them.

I’m not the girl I used to be when we first met, I’m not the girl who loved you more than she loved herself.

Scorpio. You’re all about what you can’t have and what’s forbidden. You’re always attracted to the wrong men for you because they’re just wrong and you want to make them right.

You’re not alone. You’re not the only one who’s losing sleep over a guy who doesn’t love you back or a guy who broke your heart. You’re not the only one who’s afraid of what tomorrow may bring and how you’re going to face it all by yourself.

Security. She wants to know that she’s in safe hands. Don’t talk to her if you’re talking to ten other girls, don’t tell her you like her if you don’t want a relationship and don’t lead her on if you’re not ready.

Because long flights show you the essence of a person and long flights can seem so short when you have the right person by your side.

And it’s getting harder to keep up with you. To wait for you. To defend you. To believe in you. To believe in us.

For the first time, I’m starting to realize that maybe I’m in the wrong place with the wrong people. Maybe everything feels wrong because this is not the right direction, this is not the right road.

To my unguarded heart. I miss you. I miss how you used to make decisions without thinking, I miss how you were so hopeful and optimistic and full of love. I miss who you were before they broke you.