Never Back Down From People

When people want to hurt, control, manipulate you it can hurt. If someone does that and they are close to you, it can hurt even more. Life is full of surprises, and you can always count on learning something new. I now understand the way I behave with others can alter due to the different interactions I have had. I have learned that people in my day-to-day life can be overly critical and judging everything you do. It is not up to me to be worried about that though, or to take it personally. It is the person that is committing this behaviour that I wish would stop. We can let people know that we do not like something, but we cannot force them from doing it. If they choose to continue to be hurtful towards you, then the only thing you can do is choose to move away from them. It is not about trying to get back at the person that is hurting you with this behaviour. It is about you standing up for yourself knowing that you do not deserve to have to go through this. Please know that I have the power to leave if I do not like being around someone. Why do people have to hurt others that do not wish harm on them? Because for some reason this person may mistakenly think you are weak, or it may be because of some insecurity or trauma that gets brought up when they are around you. I know that I am worthy of good relationships, good things can happen to me, and I do not need anyone to be successful in life. I have seen memes of people living with in a house surrounded by just trees and no other people are around. It seems peaceful at times to want to live like that. At other times, I enjoy people and learning about how each of us are different. The things we appreciate and the things we hate. The experiences we have gone through and the ones we wish did not happen to us. We have a lot of things to learn from each other and things to unlearn. I like to stay motivated, challenged, pushed to do the best that I can. Go through challenges and become stronger after each one. I do not like hearing complaints about the actions I have taken in my life. People can give advice on how to act in certain situations in life, but until each of us faces them we will not understand. I have found my views, values, things I appreciate in my life are different from others and that has made it always harder to connect. People like things that are similar, that are familiar, that they understand. When your values and the ideas you stand for are different than the majority the world can be a lonely place. We all have our own battles to go through and lessons to learn. I hope that each of us knows we can stop anything that comes up. I hope for others to understand that we are not alone and that someone could be one city away or a country away knows what we might be going through. The world can be a scary place, but I know that anyone CAN HAVE FRIENDS in it. Do not back down