Rowan Abdelmeguid

Showing your vulnerability won’t make you less of a man.

You haven’t been in a situation where one day you’re completely in love and everything is perfect, and the next day you realize that nothing is perfect and the person you’re in love with has been cheating on you all along.

This is me falling in love with the act of loving others and being loved. I am falling in love with discovering new passions and interests. 

Enjoy the journey of getting to know who you are in this life and what you want. Enjoy your messiness.

What you need to understand is that what’s going on inside you is something that you have to deal with yourself.

This is me understanding that even though I can do a lot of things on my own, I don’t have to.

Doing the right thing is not easy — it’s heartbreaking sometimes — but you learn along the way that sometimes you have to collect every single bit of courage and strength inside of you to do it for your own sake, because you know better than not to.

Believe that you can, even when you think you can’t, and repeat this to yourself.

Maybe you’re terrified of the emptiness you’ll feel once you truly let go.

Love doesn’t stand in the way of you figuring out your way in life.

I started slowly falling out of love with you when I started realizing that no matter what I did or how much I gave you, it was never enough, and it never would be. 

I was never taught to love it or look at it in a different way. I never looked at it in a less superficial way—it was always about how it looked.

I loved you while you weren’t noticing.

It feels right, and that’s one of the most important feelings you get to experience.

You should acknowledge the impact that anxiety might have on your life.

I realized that you could spend most of your time with people and still not be able to shake the feeling of loneliness away.

Stop waiting for someone or something to happen in order to move you to chase this life you want.

Depression doesn’t have to always look sad, nor does it have to be loud.