I’m prepared.
I’m prepared to let you go. I’m prepared to bid farewell to my favourite elements of you, the unique memories, the moments I wish I really could rewind. I’m prepared to permit them to go, I’m prepared to loosen my hold and welcome new ones. I’m prepared to allow the minutes I adored slip through my fingers and go make new ones.
I learned.
I learned the lessons you were attempting to educate me. I learned from the pain, from the heartbreak, from the treachery, from the tears, from the errors and from my own personal shortcomings. I learned the tough ones; you were tough on me occasionally but I’m grateful for the lessons since I expect I’m a little bit wiser, a little bit more powerful and a good deal more resistant because of them.
I forgive you. !
I forgive you for getting me through hard times, I forgive you for not making the great times last more, I forgive you for being uncooperative, for not turning things just the way I need them to and I mainly forgive you for all the lonely nights. In a way, they made me fearless, in a way, they instructed me the best way to love my own business and in a way, they made me unafraid of solitude.
I really like you.
I adore you for all of the benefits you gave me, for the times I spent grinning, for the all the times I laughed with my friends as well as the times I stayed up speaking to someone I adore. I adore you for the seconds when you made me feel invincible and for the minutes you made me feel living and for the ones that will live me with me eternally. I really like you for being so memorable, so unforgettable and so breathless. !
I’ll miss you. !
It’s odd, because you weren’t perfect but you still had a particular place in my heart. Something about you was critical, something about you was comforting, something about you believed safe, like coming home after quite a while, like I’m eventually on the appropriate course, in the correct path. Unlike all other years, you left an impact, you felt right.
2017 — I’m prepared.
I don’t understand what to anticipate, I don’t understand exactly what you hold for me, I don’t understand if you’ll be better or worse, but I understand I’m prepared for you. I am aware that I can manage the terrible minutes and adopt the great minutes. I am aware that I’m open to learning and understanding why matters won’t turn out the way I wish they could. I’m prepared because I’m letting go of the past and willing to start over with you. I’m prepared to get a brand new publication with empty pages so we are able to write the story together. I’m prepared for you to give me a fantastic narrative to write.
Get my hand and get your pencil and let’s work collectively as a team, for the very first time, I’m on your side and I’m willing to work alongside you.
2017, I ‘ven’t met you yet but I’m already in love alongside you. 
Rania Naim is a poet as well as the writer of the novel All The Words I Should Have Said.
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