Maturity is practicing growing outside of your comfort zone. Attend a wedding alone. Eat alone in a restaurant. Sit alone in a movie theater. It's about building resilience, self-trust, and emotional self-sufficiency. Realizing you are enough company for yourself is a superpower.
No one can live your life for you, so please stop people-pleasing, chasing approval, waiting for permission, following other’s playbooks, wanting someone to make your decisions for you, and please stop self-abandoning to try to fit in. You don’t need to fit in everywhere. Be YOU.
If you're the person everyone relies on then you know a loneliness that success was supposed to fix but didn't.
You take care of everyone but lie awake wondering something you'll never say: "Am I only loved for what I provide?"
You don't know
and that not-knowing is lonelier than being alone.
Stop trying to build a home for yourself within other people's comfort zones. Stop molding your personality, silencing your opinions, and abandoning what makes you unique to fit into what makes them comfortable. Stop betraying your true self and becoming a guest in your own life.
Avoid eggshell relationships. They're draining af. You can't be yourself. You have to edit yourself. You can't speak freely without backlash. You can't be heard without drama. If you can't respond with love without it turning negative or toxic, that's not peace; that's captivity.
Maturity is realizing not everything deserves your reaction, emotional energy, or mental energy, so sometimes you just gotta be quiet, even if you have a lot to say.
His sentence was not for life, but for as long as he refused to comply with the gender madness imposed by the court. It’s nonetheless an abominable decision, and makes me grateful that we Americans fought a war for freedom of speech and the right to bear arms.
There are many wonderful videos on the internet, this just happens to be my favorite.
There is no wrong way to be a boy or a girl. THIS is how you talk to kids about gender. @againstgrmrs
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