When you get the feeling, you can be yourself then you know you are safe to be at home and at peace. It can be tough when you feel you must be your own best friend now, but it can help save your life. We never know the battles that everyone can go through and what can break a person or what can leave them standing taller. Whether you have no friends or a million we can always end up feeling lonely or that we cannot be ourselves in front of the people around us. That when we show them who we are everybody will pack up and leave and then what are we left with. Sometimes doing this can make your bonds stronger and sometimes showing people can make them disappear and you end up left only with yourself wondering what happened. Either way is ok, and you will end up being ok, because you can be the one that protects yourself and has the key to let people in or deny them access to you. Remember that each of us has something that is especially important to us. We could have material things, or we could have loved ones, or we could really have anything. The important thing is when you try to come between what someone loves or cares about you can be playing with fire. People may guess and think they know who you are and what will you do, but do they really know? You can be the nicest person and one day you have taken too much, and everything spills out everywhere, or you could know the truth about things and understand that matters. If others resort to gossiping or throwing your name in the mud that is none of your business. You would hope that anyone that does not hear about something from the proper person would know better to believe garbage, but it is not your job to tell people what they can and cannot believe. When these people do not make the right choices we notice, but we become focused on what we need to be doing. Distractions will set you off course, but your motivation and drive can bring you back on course. When you focus your thoughts on good things, things that will improve your future, improve your mindset the foundation is trying to show up for a beautiful future. Temptations, distractions, complacency all start coming into play and each of us must know what we can tolerate and what must feel thrown away. Remember that the things around you need to be positive and good for you or you leave yourself open to an opportunity of feeling held back from things. The last thing in the world we want is to end up told and directed somewhere, but falling into the traps that life sets off can make things even tougher for yourself. It is up to you to be brave and make these decisions for yourself, but will you? Are you enjoying the games of distraction too much?