Date somebody who actually wants to experience LIFE with you. Not just dinner and sex. Museums, cooking classes, festivals, pottery, concerts, bookstores, road trips, EVERYTHING .
sometimes I don’t want an apology. I want you to experience the exact situation you put me through so I can see if you still think that the shit was okay. 🧐
move on. they made their choice. accept it. stop searching for explanations, stop replaying what happened and stop holding onto what could have been. you don’t need to convince anyone to choose you. let people live with the decisions they made while you put that energy back into yourself. some chapters are meant to be closed, not reread.
I’m done chasing friendships. If you genuinely care about me, I shouldn’t have to constantly initiate or wonder why there’s never time for me while you’re always making time for everyone else. I’ve learned who reciprocates, who makes me a priority, and I’m choosing people who —
Becoming distant with everyone because one random day it hit me that people really don’t care about me the way I care about them. I started realizing I was giving people a level of love, effort, and consideration they never thought twice about giving back, so now I’m just matching energy and protecting my peace.
I used to believe that if I treated people with kindness, they would return it. But life taught me that people will be who they are, regardless of how gently you treat them. You can have a good heart and still be treated badly. That’s why, eventually, you learn to stop listening to promises and start paying attention to actions. People always reveal themselves through what they choose to do.
Keke Palmer tells Raven-Symoné she feels society has become OVERLY SEXUALIZED from constantly being exposed to sexual content online, in music and entertainment, making intimacy feel more PERFORMATIVE and less vulnerable and safe than it should be 👀
“I don’t feel as sexual as the world is saying is normal… We see so much sexual stuff now… What we believe sex is, is p-rn.”
Being in your 30s is realizing you can actually just... leave. The relationship. The friendship. The room. The situation. You don’t need to stay anywhere that doesn’t feel good anymore.