Shani Jayawardena

Self-love called me home to my heart. 

I want you to know it’s okay to feel shit sometimes, y’know?

On the days when you feel unloved, know that love will never ever give up on you.

All I know are women who have in time woken up to the realization that this is their world just as much as it is anybody else’s.

Tough love was the relentless, air gasping grip on my throat, as I stood up in front of you and somehow managed to speak my truth for the very first time, instead of what you wanted to hear.

I hope you allow the love that surrounds you every day to fill every crevice of you up, overflowing into the souls you cross paths with. 

I miss the time before I met you, when I wouldn’t have missed a damn thing.

I will not swallow my truth. Because each time you do, your voice, your heart, and your soul shrink a little more.

Love someone who offers you forever – if that’s what you crave – and shows you every day that they’re not planning on disappearing.

We are the creators of our destiny. We have the power to dream bigger and to dream better.

You deserve a love that lasts this time.

Find something to smile about. Anything. There are so many things. You’re alive.