You cannot be friends with someone who is not in the same wavelength, mindset, or lifestyle as you. Friendship needs alignment.
People who have not attained a certain level of self-awareness or discipline will often become uncomfortable in the presence of someone who has.
No matter how much grace, compassion, or patience you extend to such people, they will eventually feel threatened by the parts of you that remind them of what they have not become.
Instead of being inspired, they become confronted by their own shortcomings. And when that happens, two things often occur:
They will try to pull you down to their level to justify their inadequacies, or slowly buildup envy and resentment towards you. This is why outgrowing people is sometimes necessary; not out of pride, but out of self-preservation.
stronger than their ability to question it.
Loyalty does not discriminate between virtue and vice; it simply attaches itself to something.
Integrity, on the other hand, requires discernment.
It knows when allegiance must give way to principle.
The hard pill I had to swallow was that Loyalty has no inherent integrity. No matter how distorted a person, belief or ideology may be, there will always be people willing to defend it.
Not necessarily because it is right, but because their allegiance has become…
There’s no emotion I intend to leave unexplored. I relish my sadness just as much as my happiness because I believe every emotion exists to be explored.
Realmente creo que llorar por un libro es uno de los indicadores más fuertes de empatía hacia la humanidad. Estás de luto por un personaje que no existe en realidad, pero aun así te preocupas por él como si lo hubieras conocido toda tu vida.
I got a little snack for a child that wanted to work with me. I noticed she didn’t thank me. I had the urge to lecture her but I didn’t. I gave myself reasons not to; 1. She probably forgot
2: She’s still a kid
3: why the fuze?
4: let her be.
Guess what she did,,?