When the most regular, mundane things you do get treated like gossip, that's your confirmation of your internal power. Nobody pays that much attention to anyone considered average. Protect your light.
bell hooks wrote, “Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power — not because they don’t see it, but because they see it and they don’t want it to exist.”
bell hooks is a ~controversial~ figure but she cooked when she said a lot of people do not want to deal with the fact that they were not treated lovingly as children and are trying to reconcile that dynamic with what they understand to be love
At this big age when people show signs of hidden animosity or weird energy, I just remove myself. I’m not trying to understand you and I’m not trying to make it make sense
People being weird to you for no reason is weird. I always notice it, and I don’t take it lightly. & they always do it in ways subtle enough to deny, but obvious enough for you to feel.. they just never think you catch it
I actually came to this conclusion about myself yesterday.
Sometimes we want to belong so bad that we force connections and perform closeness with people who don’t actually value us or contribute to our growth in ny way.
Thats why a lot of people are lonely, resentful and unfulfilled.
They feel guilty for wanting more because often times that means accepting that a lot of people’s “best” is simply not good enough for you.
And the only thing left to do is move on.