Randomly saying “I see a lot of BBLs and no faces” is wild mean for no reason but again I didn’t rebrand Rihanna as a pop sweetheart or a girls girl like many of you.
Bitch is as mean as many Caribbean women are.
I finally understand what Machiavelli meant when he said, “Never play fair in a game where others cheat.” It doesn’t mean become evil. It means stop being naive. Stop bringing honesty to people who study manipulation, stop giving access to people who weaponize closeness, and stop expecting clean hands from people who already showed you they’ll throw dirt. Sometimes wisdom is not revenge. Sometimes wisdom is learning the rules of the room before the room uses your goodness against you.
if you are struggling to find your gift in life as a young person, walk through this piece.
& pay solid attention;
i have a working theory and this is it: i don't think your gift is hidden from you, i believe you can't find it cos you've seen it every day of your life. it is called the curse of familiarity. listen to me. familiarity doesn't only breed contempt; it also causes blindness.
i'll tell you something fascinating about your brain. do you know that right now your nose is in your field of vision? you can see it. you've always been able to see it but your brain quietly edits it out cos it is familiar and i believe many people suffer from the same problem when it comes to their gift.
the things that make us remarkable often feel ordinary to us cos we've lived with them for so long.
we assume they can't be valuable cos they don't feel rare anymore. look, familiarity has a tendency to hide significance. we get so busy searching for our future that we overlook the evidence we've been carrying all along.
the first person to undervalue your gift is usually you. yes, you and while everybody else experiences your gift as a miracle, you're busy experiencing it as muscle memory.
i've been there and it has happened to me many times. people will call it exceptional and you'll call it normal. the things that come naturally to you may be the very things that have been supernaturally assigned to you & that which you cannot acknowledge, you cannot maximize. i will always tell the younger generation the truth.
in this short life, during your hard times and good times, pay close attention to patterns and to what has followed you through all those seasons. pay attention to what people consistently come to you for. what is that thing that has become invisible through familiarity?
there is a difference btwn when something is hidden from your sight and when something is hidden by your sight, buena suerte 👍
Upgrading my appearance.
Becoming hard to reach.
Working 24/7.
Choosing happiness.
Cutting off toxic people.
No roaster.
Enjoying my alone time.
Forgiving myself.
@SystemClapper Yes. My 2 island homes, where the landscape is familiar but not the same as real life.. sometimes they cross over lol but they are mostly consistent