The Art of Letting Go

by Rania Naim

So if you ever feel the need to redeem or validate yourself after being rejected, please don’t because no one can take anything away from you by not wanting you and you aren’t born to prove yourself to anyone.

You have the power to take yourself to a place of peace and acceptance. You have the choice to be kinder to yourself each day.

“Not everything makes sense. And sometimes, trying will drive you insane,” she offers.

I have learned people can say the opposite of what they mean. Or maybe even worse? They can mean it. They can say things with full honesty. They want you and love you. Everything is real and authentic. But it changes.

“How can I let him go?”

“You just do. Maybe slowly, maybe it takes time. But eventually, you do.”

You can’t force someone to love you, to treat you a certain way. To be honest, faithful, supportive, and kind. But you can love yourself enough to acknowledge when you’re being treated wrongly and when you deserve better.

we should all remember two things: 1) If someone is the right person for us, they will come back into our lives no matter how far away they drift. 2) You will always be able to find someone better—or, rather, someone just as good who won’t forget you.

I wasn’t supposed to be in love with you. I wasn’t supposed to be hurt. But I was, just the same.

And you had transformed into someone I no longer knew, someone I didn’t think you were anymore, someone I never thought you could be.

It doesn’t matter how great someone is — at this stage of life, I’m not ready for a “we” and I’m happy being on my own. There are so many things I would like to do for myself and my future and I wouldn’t be able to give it my best if my time and energy were invested elsewhere. More

I will wait and stay grounded for the life I aspire to lead and because I know the things I truly want are not readily available. It takes time. For now, I don’t mind having my phone quiet.

Romantic love, while beautiful, is only one kind of love, and never enough to fully sustain a person. Take note of all the people you have in your life. All the love you have surrounding.

1. The people who were able to hurt you most were also the people who you were able to love the most.

4. You don’t come across these people by accident, they were your teachers and catalysts.

To fully move on from anything, you must be able to recognize what purpose it served, and how it made you better.

To fully accept your life – the highs, lows, good, bad – is to be grateful for all of it, and to know that the “good” teaches you well, but the “bad” teaches you better.

There ain’t no way you can hold onto something that wants to go, you understand? You can only love what you got while you got it.—Kate DiCamillo