Sometimes
People
Leave
Scars
Instead of
Memories

You will
Never change
Until someone
Disappointes you

I want
To discover
Myself
Through
Others

Do you love yourself
Or do you hate yourself?

What are we running after?
Is it love?
Finding destiny?
Or are we just running to get into the torrent of life?
To keep moving just like everybody else
Because moving fast
Has become the new motto
Waking up everyday
Doing the same routine
Without ever stopping
As if taking some time to rest is a sin
Being unable to catch up with the speed
Is okay is totally human
Take your time
To discover yourself before others
Do not follow what others are doing

I am afraid to start again
What if I am not enough
What if I fail
What will happen then

We need time to recover
To start again
Healing will happen to you
Just be patient with yourself

Don’t wait for the world
To show you what it has to offer
You have all the potential
To be happy
Despite circumstances
seasonal depression
And the harsh snow weather
Sincerely,
A girl that lives in Canada

La simplicite
Des moments
Des détails
Ce calme dans les yeux
Savoir comment se gérer
Accepter notre colère
Et notre tristesse
Rien ne nous manque
Tout est possible
Donne toi la chanse
D’être heureux
De sentir
Ne te débarasse pas de tes sentiments
N’aie pas peur

La pureté définitive
D’une jeunesse incompréhensible
La beauté des moments
Doux
La sécheresse des esprits
Est-cela la promesse des adultes?
Devenir esclave de nos travails
Abandonner notre esprit
Et se fixer sur notre corps
On nous a menti
C’est quoi cette vie pleine de problèmes
Pourquoi elle est si imprévisible?
Comment faut-il gérer notre vie?
Quelles sont les normes qu’on doit suivre?
Rien n’est sur
Tout est improbable
Illisible et incompréhensible
Puis-je revenir enfant ou c’est trop **** maintenant?

There will come a time
When you’ll leave everything and go
But it’s not that time yet

You don’t
need constant
approval

Should we please
the ones
we love?

If we fight ourselves
How do we know that we won or lost?
How do we know when to continue
When to stop
When to be more of ourselves
Can we do it alone?
Or do we need constant support
From people
Book and songs
Do we have to listen to other’s people stories
In order to feel better
Will our fight make more sense when it is experienced by someone else who was been through it all
Someone who will know our story just by looking into our eyes
They will say to us
“I’ve know what you’re going through
And I am gonna help you elevate yourself
You’ll know how to do it the secomd time alone”

If we abondon our own fights
Is it a relief
Or a failure?

Combattre soi-même
Devrait être une des choses les
Plus difficiles à faire

Should we interpret it
Or just accept it as it is
Should we indulge in endless explanations
Or sit in silence
What is the most adequate response
To problems
Complications
Fights

There will come a time
When we will be separate from each other
And it will feel weird at first
But it’s okay
Nothing should last
Everything should be transformed
People
Situations
Places
Accept the fact that change is beneficial
No matter how much you crave stability

I’m sorry that sometimes
I don’t know how to stand beside you
Comfort you in the correct way
I try my best to motivate you
But things don’t always work
I know that you are suffering
You’re making efforts
And I’m certain that what you’re passing through
Is really hard
I can never deny that
But I’m sure you’ll get better
It takes time, energy and patience

You can guess
how much a person loves you
by the amount of freedom
they give you

Why do we do this to
Ourselves
Torture ourselves with
Things that we can’t control
What is it that makes life
Threatening
Devasting
Completely
Meaningless
It’s the ideas in our head
The bad thoughts that accompany us
everyday
We can change
It’s not a destiny
It’s how you deal
How you work on yourself
To tolerate pain
Sadness
And every little thing
That can connect us to a past
That will never happen again
Do not say
I was happy back then
But more
I choose to be happy
To be satisfied by boring
Routinized moments
I choose to make magic
Out of the ordinary life

Open the dictionary and you’ll find its meaning
open your windows and remember sad things
and you’ll feel it
but do you know how we experience it?
We live with our emotions
every second of the day
Even if sometimes we suppress them
we make them disappear out of fear
of being judged as weak
Our society refuses our emotions
and want us to get rid of it
should we?
Should we erase what makes us human
what differentiate us from others
what gives life meaning
Should we listen to them
every time they ask us not to feel?

I am loosing interest in myself
In others
In the world surrounding me
I am lost
Not knowing what to feel
How to feel
And what can I do to stop feeling
Does missing someone
Makes us loose ourselves
Does missing someone
Crash us to the ground
Make us desperate
Unworthy
Tell me it’s okay to feel this way
Even if I don’t want to
If I even think this makes me weak
And at others times
I accept that it is perfectly normal
Lost human quality
Should I continue moving on
Even if I don’t feel like it
Can i take a pause
Because my mental health needs some rest

Do not ****
what you have
in your soul
so someone
else can be
happy

If only the confidence
That others give to us
Can rise from our deepest selves

Focus on yourself
Sometimes you have to
be arrogant
even narcissistic
Feel angry
For god's sake
become a rebel soul
You deserve everything
honey
you're breathing
do whatever you
want with your life

Learn to leave
You're not stuck
You can move
Transformation is possible
Stability is not
a human feature
Motion is necessary

Everything matters
Even the little things

If you find nature, the only place
where you belong
Then my dear,
I think you're
entering the
cycle of life

For there are two sides of life
and it's okay if
you belong to one side

Do not speed your life
Do not skip moments

I belong here
I belong in unknown places
in deserted islands
I belong in scary forests
in deep seas

We have to stop somewhere
Observe our lives
Pause, take a break
Think of everything that happened
For whatever made sense before
is meaningless right now

Do not look at yourself and assume you are
a failure just because you don't fit the
standards of society.
Being part of life
means you have to accept
whatever happens.
Humans aren't robots
They are fragile creatures
who will always need support,
motivation and love.

Endings are beautiful
Because you give yourself
the chance to start again

Believe
that whoever
wants you
will find you

Heal yourself
You have powers inside you
and all the wisdom of the world

We need to take care of ourselves
not matter how hard it is seems
It doesn't have to be majestic
It should get ugly
Because starting something new
isn't easy, it is terrifying
But trust me when you get there
it's worth it
It's a lot of work
But think of how much you need it
How much it is important to your soul,
to your body, to your confidence
You're not alone in this
Everything takes time
Look around you
Even nature takes time to grow
Do not expect progress to
happen suddenly
You have to keep going
no matter the time
For what counts is our
experiences , how much we have
felt, even suffered to accomplish ourselves

L'instabilité
Le manque de peur
Ces sentiments inexplicables
Tout ce qui est relié à l'incertitude
Savoir ce qu'on veut dans la vie
C'est ce qui a changé en moi
Ces derniers mois

Heal me
without judgement
Help me
without my notice
For whenever we put labels on necessities
they lose their meaning and their credibility

We sometimes need people
to save us from all the misery
that we have created in our own heads

There's a difference
between getting used to someone
liking them
and loving them

The
One
That
Loves
You
Will
Free
You

Some things in ourselves are really hard to change
My main concern in life was
not being enough
for something
for my courses
I was self-doubting
I was really afraid
How could I start again after all the fun months I have spent?
How can I keep a routine?
How can I get back to study and
focus on myself?
How can I spend more hours in the library
and become more confident?
Waw how much these questions are important
And how much they involve
Every student in the world

And I answered them with other questions
Why do I need to be the best to succeed?
Shouldn’t learning be a fun thing?
Where it is all about accepting yourself
And expanding your knowledge
Why do I always feel the need to be more than I am?
Why do I have to become better?
Who said that the version of myself right now isn’t enough?
Why do I compare myself to others, to phones , to machines?
Why do we do this to ourselves setting up goals
Instead of waiting and seeing what life will offer us
Why can’t we trust that good things will happen
They can take time some time
And that’s okay
We should be patient with our fragile souls
Observe this world and see its hidden beauty

I need books to make me feel better
I need to read about a writer’s boring life
Accept life as absurd, boring and alienating as it is
Accept that everyone has a dark side
Involve emotions and feelings in everything I do or say
Let go instead of holding on

He only said
I wanna know you better
And that’s how it all started

Does it happen to you?
When self doubt is all you can think about
When all the good things in your life are forgotten
And you’re only focusing on yourself

Missing someone so much
You don't want to talk to them
Nor hear their voices

I miss the walls of a city
that used to bother me
I miss the way people
would made you feel
I miss how much
love was found in unusual places
I miss seeing my father
everyday for a long period of time
I miss the lack of conscience
How everything seems weird at
first
For whatever reason
leaving what was once completely natural
was unbearable at first
but livable at last

Loving someone needs time
You can't jump from being friends
to lovers in seconds

Why don't we bring
the everyday routine into our lives
and accept it
as boring as it is
Why don't we bother ourselves
and just imagine how much life
was meaningless without effort
Why don't we see
all the beauty left in
this world
Why don't we give ourselves
the chance to start again

Loving you
meant
loving myself

What is life without love?
Meaningless
What is life without hope?
Insignificant
What is life without respect?
Irrational
What is life without feelings?
Useless

To leave a certain space
with someone you used to admire
is called a distant childhood love

Believe that good things
are on their way
They will happen
They will be part of your life
But do not chase them
For they come to you
like little breezes of air
Unable to be seen
But felt deeply and strongly
within your soul

In 60 days
I tried my best to rediscover
my country Lebanon
It was weird
to experience
the other side
that I didn’t see before
the side
where everything is okay
where youth still governed an
important part of society
But most of all
to see how your school friends
have blossomed into mentally mature human beings
who aren’t afraid to show their fragile souls to the world

This time
I wanted to feel everything
feel the heat
feel the human interaction
feel the pain, the sadness of leaving
but also feel the joy
of recovering from insignificant
and useless scars

How much
was it important
To change your room,
your wall hangings
the ideas in your mind
but to keep your childhood
best friends close
no matter the distance
and no matter the time