no one talks about the personality shift as you get older. where you no longer want to be impressive, you want to be rested. you want to be regulated and completely unavailable to anything that drains you.
What a privilege to be tired from work you once begged the universe for. what a privilege to feel overwhelmed by growth you used to dream about. what a privilege to be challenged by a life you created on purpose. what a privilege to outgrow things you used to settle for.
normalize saying “i don't think we have the kind of relationship that should make you comfortable enough to say that to me” when someone tries to get too familiar.
i wish more ppl understood the ability to change your mind as a sign of intelligence. you don’t have to keep believing the same things you believed 5, 10, 20 yrs ago. a flexible mind is an agile mind. standing on business doesn’t hit if the business is bullshit