Dishonest people defo can only have shallow connections with people because true intimacy is honesty. You can’t create an intimate environment if you keep lying. If you’re with a person that is dishonest with you, your connection is always going to be surface level until they start to be real. Where there’s no truth, there’s no depth. And where there are lies, there’s no foundation. You’re building a fantasy that they created.
The wildest part about POVERTY is how much time it steals. Waiting for buses. Calling assistance offices. Comparing grocery prices. Fighting insurance. Sitting at laundromats. Being poor is a second job nobody pays you for.
anyways my dad was telling me how I cant “rent forever and i need to buy a house” i said do u have 50K to give me as a down payment and he said yes so find one within the next yr
tolerating always turns into resentment. at first, you call it patience, then love. but what it really is, is self abandonment. every time you swallow a boundary, excuse a pattern or silence your discomfort, something inside you keeps score. eventually, the bill comes due.
All the things I grew up loving as a kid cost almost double for this generation of kids. At 10-15 years old, I could make $25 stretch a whole week. Nowadays even the “dollar” menu costs $3.
My new response to “are you dating anyone” has been “no, I’m scared of niggas” and that stops any other questions lol. Folks just be like “respect/I feel you” 😭😭😭
This girl really use to be on love & hiphop, telling niggas she was gone be famous and they did not believe her. Life is so crazy like that. That’s why your vision gotta make sense to you and you only
we are in a cowardice epidemic. people avoid making any decisions at all. decisions are commitment and commitment requires the bravery to take responsibility for your desires. they would rather live in a state of possibility and ‘potential’ than run the risk of being wrong.