My dad died around 4am. And the sun still came up. The cats still needed to be fed. Coffee needed to be made. A friend texted to see if I wanted to go thrifting. And I think it's kinda unfair that the rest of the world didn't stop too.
My most successful college friend makes eight figures a year, also tall & very good looking. Dated baddies but married an average looking neurosurgeon.
One of his big reasons: “I don’t want dumb kids. I want to drop my daughters off for freshman orientation at Harvard, not ASU.”
Tom Holland sharing a quote that said “if you have a problem with me, text me, and if you don’t have my number, you don’t know me well enough to have a problem with me” really stuck with me
our best engineer found out he was the lowest paid on the team. and instead of blowing up or quitting, he did something way scarier. he just... started working his exact hours. that's it. no complaint, no big speech. he clocks in, does the job, clocks out at five on the dot. and it turns out all the stuff that kept this place running - the little fixes, the "oh i'll just handle it," the things breaking at 11pm that we never even heard about, that was all the "extra" he's not doing anymore. billing still runs fine because it's on Dodo Payments and that runs by itself. everything else is quietly falling apart. leadership actually called a meeting about his "drop in initiative," and he just said "this is the job you're paying for."
and honestly? he's right.
More and more people in Cape Town are starting to wake up... but this is by far the most painful crash out I've seen this week of a woman just trying to survive 💔
why would u meet the person you’re gonna marry in a fucked up way? why would your life partner make you beg, cry, chase & second guess. That doesn’t make spiritual sense. Break up. Move on
Ego says: make them regret losing access to you.
Wisdom says: build a life so full of meaning that revenge begins to feel like an embarrassing use of your imagination. There are better things to do with a morning than rehearse someone else’s future remorse. Let your energy become creation, friendship, work, laughter, strength, whatever brings you back into your own hands.
I believe that people's actions can make it clear that they have no respect or regard for you, regardless of what they say. Their actions clearly indicate that they don't value you. when you notice this, take it for what is.