for the first time in my life, i love myself more than anyone else. there's no room for self-abandonment or neglect anymore. the tides change, and so do i.
becoming less reactive is a huge part of growth, and decreasing stress. if you let everything get you worked up, you're damaging your mind, body, and spirit.
I don’t even do the playful, mean flirting shit. The “roasting”, passive aggressive humor. The jokes laced with cruelty & a little bit of truth behind them. I will either be treated with absolute kindness & softness or we just won’t be together.
If I was in Odysseus’s crew I would volunteer to stay on the boat every time. Have fun on the Island fellas!! I’m sure it’ll be a chill normal island and nothing funky will go down! I’ll hold things down here on the boat y’all stay safe !!
someone once told me “emotional intelligence is the discipline of sitting with a feeling long enough to understand it before you hand it to someone else” and that honestly changed how i move.