on my 26th birthday, i wrote I Took A Pill in Ibiza…10 years ago. The song became popular several years after i wrote it. Yesterday i celebrated my 36th birthday. i feel proud to look at the song lyrics and know that NONE of them are true anymore. I’ve grown into a completely new man…one that i’m proud of. check this out… 🧵
Silence in the face of disrespect can be a thunderous response.
It speaks of a man who chooses battles wisely, whose restraint is a hidden depth of strength.
Beware the quiet warrior, for his patience masks a storm, his composure a carefully sheathed sword waiting for the right moment.
Healers aren’t holy beings sent down from the light, they emerge from the darkness after learning how to heal and radiate the glow of alchemical transformation.
view their misunderstandings of you as a blessing to your awareness; it separates the ones that accept you unapologetically from the ones that are too lazy to learn you, it allows you to stop compartmentalizing your self worth to fit into peoples shallow ideas of you.
Don’t mistake silence for apathy. When people are quiet, they’re often busy thinking and learning.
Extraverts like to process ideas by talking them through. Introverts prefer to reflect before they speak.
I'm not disengaged. I'm listening to your views and formulating mine.
@DonaldBKipkorir ..If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
…If all men count with you, but none too much;
Profound!
It’s even sadder to see one’s very legit expression in opinions disregarded/ discounted due to their inability to articulately translate these thoughts from the native to a foreign tongue. Yet clear, is their idea/concept.