Some of you don't realize how much of your personality can disappear when you don’t feel emotionally safe around someone. You become quieter. More careful with your words. Less playful, less willing to be seen. Some connections expand you. Others teach you to disappear.
It took me 24 years to realize that people are constantly hinting at how they feel about you and sometimes you just have to accept that hint even if hurts
everyone lied btw. things get better as you age, not worse. as a woman, you only become more and more powerful, beautiful and magnetic. everyone lied.
One of the healthiest things I’ve learnt over the years is to allow people reintroduce themselves to you, even those closest to you. Familiarity shouldn’t become a cage. People change. Love them for who they are now, not just who they were then.
People who like you are gonna find reasons to like you, and people who dislike you are gonna find reasons to dislike you. Two people can watch you do the exact same thing and one will understand you while the other finds a problem with it.
Favoritism is real. You gotta learn to stay out of people’s faces. Only go where the love is shown and the energy is returned. That includes friends, family, and associates. I will always pay attention to how people treat me versus how they treat others.
this generation have normalized internet asthetics so much that yall forgot what reality actually is…..it’s ok to have regular teeth, it's ok to have a lil stomach, it’s ok to work a 9-5, it’s ok to live within your means, it’s ok to drive a paid off car for years, and it’s ok to move at your own pace. the internet will NEVER take my reality from me, my peace matters more than pretending.