MJ Mariano

You heal not by finding someone new to love but by loving yourself first.

“Never settle for less” is an understatement. Settle for the best for you.

You stop wondering why it had to end.

We slow them down not just because we don’t want to take sudden risks but also because we appreciate the beauty in falling slowly.

Fall in love with someone who understands that you are, and will always be, a complicated person.

Don’t expect yourself to fall in love just so you can take the loneliness away, just so you can forget, just so you can stop being broken.

Because sometimes, no matter how painful it may sound, the love of our life is nothing but a turning point to wiser versions of us

Because the love you made me feel was intoxicating.

We are idealistic. Because most of us spend our time reading or watching, our aspirations are wider.

And in your leaving, I found a strength inside me to make it through each day without you.

The only way for us to be stronger is to know what it feels like to be weak. To be broken. To be left. To be unloved.

I don’t know how long, or how desperate, or how lonely I would have to be before you come into my life, but I still hold onto this tiny flicker of hope

And finally, you will be free.

Have I been too clingy, too demanding, too loving? Or did you simply have to let go of the thing that weighs you down the most which, sadly, ends up to be me?

I’m always going to miss your hands, for when our fingers intertwine, I knew I was safe.

My love is strong but my heart bends and breaks easily. And knowing this, knowing that my heart is fragile, I don’t simply let anyone in.

I just can’t wait to spend tomorrow with you. Not just tomorrow tomorrow, but all tomorrows to come. I can’t wait to be in that point of my life where I can say that “Yes, this is the grand plan.”

I want you to know that each time I try to take a step back, it’s not because I want to leave you or I want you to leave me; it’s because you are too beautiful to be inside my mess.