Eventually, you will accept that you carry contradictions. You can be grateful and dissatisfied at the same time. Hopeful and cautious. Capable and tired. Good and bad to different or even the same people. Life has no default settings.
I'll remove myself before I allow anger to consume me ever again. I like to love. I like to laugh. I like to be happy. So if I gotta distance myself to keep things that way, I will.
I heard a therapist say, “Your feelings are always valid, your behavior is not.” She explained by saying feel what you feel BUT you need to be accountable for what you do as a result of those feelings.
The extent people will go to avoid accountability is the reason why I will always be fine with being the villain in their story. The truth is the truth, no matter how you spin it.
The homeless man outside my University had a PhD in literature.
I only found out because I dropped my book walking past him one day.
He picked it up, looked at the cover, and said, "Ah, Virginia Woolf. Have you read her essays on consciousness?"
One medical bankruptcy and a series of cascading disasters later, he's been on that corner for three years.
"The difference between us," he said, "is about six months of bad luck."
I think about that every time I complain about my problems.
A coworker died yesterday morning😭.
HR knew by 9 :00 AM, but they kept us working all day. They finally told us around 4 :30 PM, then had the nerve to say, "You can head home early if you need to"—knowing we all finish at 5: 00 PM anyway.
This morning, it’s back to "business as usual." Some of my friends are literally sobbing at their desks, but they’re expected to work and be productive. No time to grieve.
It’s a cold reality. Within a week, the company will have his job posted online. Within a month, someone else will be sitting in his chair.
But his family ,his children will still talk about him every day,they will ask where is daddy , His wife will mourn him for ages ,he was the love of her life .
At work, we are just a "resource" that can be replaced in a week. At home, we are the world. Stop giving your best energy to a desk that will forget you, and giving the "leftovers" to the people who never will.
Schools are removing analogue clocks and replacing them with digital ones because learners can’t tell the time.
Met a 21-year-old recently, asked him the time… he couldn’t answer. I’ve seen it first hand 😭
Schools are removing analogue clocks and replacing them with digital ones because learners can’t tell the time.
Met a 21-year-old recently, asked him the time… he couldn’t answer. I’ve seen it first hand 😭
I detach very fast. Anything i love extremely deeply I'm prepared to lose. It can break my heart but I have learned how to keep going. It can seem cold, but if it takes me off my pivot.. I’ll cut my finger off to save my hand.
I can’t lose myself again, for anything. I'll heal
If you want to base my whole personality on how I behave after being disrespected, that’s on you. Just know you’re not witnessing my character, you’re witnessing my boundaries. You’re not seeing who i truly am, you’re seeing who i become when I’m forced to protect myself.