@MelissaLMRogers@TELUSsupport My mint phone plan is $180 for the year with talk and text to North America and 5g a month data. Canada is wild with their prices.
If you pay attention to the patterns in your life, you'll notice that everything always works out. You've survived every difficult situation. You've weathered every storm. So trust the design. The universe doesn't give you what you can't handle; only what you need to grow through
Your unprocessed pain doesn't disappear. It just changes addresses, moving from one relationship to the next. Until you sit with it, feel it, and let it go. Emotional maturity is feeling your emotions without becoming them and feeling your pain without becoming its narrative.
The older you get, the less you care about: People not liking you. People not understanding you. How they react to your boundaries. How they react to your rejection. How they react to your distance. What they think of you. Let them react how they want. You've got peace to protect
Their disrespect is your closure. Their ghosting is your closure. They play the victim to make you the villain in their story is your closure. Their lack of accountability is your closure. The closure is in accepting that you deserve better and choosing to move on without them.
People will appreciate your emotional intelligence until it's time for them to swim in it. If they haven't done the work to confront their own uncomfortable shadows, they can't meet you where you are, and your empathy may mislead you into doing their emotional labor for them.
The older you get, the more you respect yourself and prioritize your relationship with yourself. No self-abandonment. No shrinking to fit in. No betraying your truth for the comfort of others. The right people won't ask you to invalidate yourself to validate them. You come first.
You can literally wake up tomorrow and say to yourself, "I'm done with my attention-seeking, validation-seeking, people-pleasing, and self-sabotaging behaviors. I'm done with my old identity and old narratives." No big feelings. No epiphanies. Just a choice. This is a superpower.
People will admire your light until it shines on their darkness, forcing them to confront their own shadows. They may try to dim your light through criticism, withdrawal, or hostility. Keep shining and building resilience against reactions rooted in fear rather than truth.
@unspinthespina1 @NormieSherpa I'm 5 ft 9 as well and my 12 year old seems to keep shooting up overnight. By 13 I figure he'll be taller then I am. It sure does happen fast 😭
You become truly powerful when you see ghosting as a death of the connection, when you see the silent treatment as a gift for your quiet time, when you stop taking things personally, when you control your response, when you detach with dignity, and when you keep moving forward.
Crazy how peaceful life becomes when you realize you don't have to be the bigger person, fix things you didn't break, be the version of you in people's heads, and try to make them happy. Knowing the difference between your responsibility and their baggage is top-tier self-care.
Unpopular opinion: If someone lacks manners, self-awareness, common sense, emotional intelligence, morals, or basic consideration, they don't belong in your inner circle. No drama. No excuses. Just standards. Protect your peace like it's a job. Because it is.
Don't surround yourself with people who just agree with you and validate you. You need people who will call you on your bullsh*t, challenge you, tell you when you've hurt them, and actually talk it through. That's how you apologize, learn, change, and grow. Don't settle for less.
Sometimes, the smartest thing you can do is to vibe high and stay low-key, train your boundaries to be stronger than your gentle heart, and be quiet even if you have a lot to say. True power lies in no longer reacting and being easily moved by external chaos, drama, and toxicity.
First they take away your right to speech.
Then they take away your right to defend yourself.
Then they bring in foreign troops.
If you are Canadian and can't see where this ends you deserve exactly what's coming.