I’m sure you’ve heard that you can’t change the people around you, but you can change the people around you. - Najwa Zebian

I realized that there are people in my life who aren’t good for me. I realized that I no longer have to hold on to people just because of how long they’ve been in my life or because of the potential of what they could be one day or because of who they were.

Women are often conditioned to believe that motherhood is the mark of womanhood... that it's the most important achievement a woman could ever accomplish. While it's okay to believe that, it's also okay not to.

You came to me with
broken wings.
I helped you heal your
wounds
by pouring love into the
broken pieces of
your soul.
You flew away
when your wings were healed.
You left me here,
chained to the ground,
trying to remove the shards
that got stuck in my own wings
as I took them out of yours.

Where did gratefulness
go?
I will not let your deception
make me not want to help more
broken wings out there.
Your lack of gratitude
will not make me
not give.
I do not give just to
be thanked.
But it does not mean that
it does not hurt.