Don't Give Everyone Access
đŽ After almost 2 years, this is still the most viewed and searched post throughout my entire site. I hope those of you who keep coming back to this is finding something useful within my words.
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Letâs talk a moment.
You know you are awesome, right? So letâs agree that not everyone is deserving to be around you. That doesnât mean shutting people out completely, but rather being aware that there are people who are not for you and just want to take from youâŚ
Your energy
Your confidence
Your hard work
Your finances
Your rewards
YOUR PEACE OF MIND
âŚwithout giving anything back in return.
If they canât meet you where you stand or even come half way, then donât you dare go all the way for them. We all have an intuition and all of our intuitions tell us when someone is not right for us. Many of us do ignore this because we want to be wanted, we want to be needed, we want to be loved. â Thatâs the human in us.
Although, we have to accept that sometimes it takes people longer to be the best version of them and maybe they are the best they can be at this time, but that doesnât mean you have to fully welcome them in your life. People can go through metamorphosis at any age, sometimes more than once. Love and care at a distance. You can still have a good heart and not fall victim to someone elseâs demons.
Years ago a friend and I fell out for reasons that are no longer important, we were at different places in our lives. Later on, this person ended up getting very sick and a mutual friend called me to let me know what was going on. I hopped on the first flight out to see about my sick friend. We didnât talk about why we stopped speaking to each other, we just carried on and caught up on the missed time and learned about the growth we both went through.
We needed to deny access to one another in order create different paths for ourselves and we became better friends after it because we became more willing to listen and understand each other betterâŚand our fall out wasnât a âbe all, end allâ we still had an abundance of love for each other. This doesnât mean all relationships that dissolve will come back together, it just means that sometimes the difference between two people is the distance that needs to be had and what becomes of it afterwards depends on the pivotal points in your life.
Iâve said this many of times before, I want my peace more than I want attention. â Iâm so comfortable with myself that I refuse to allow someone to destroy what Iâve created. Or exhaust my warmth to someone who wonât reciprocate my affections.
Many of us get into relationships (platonic or romantic) and make compromises which is expected, but when those compromises start to turn you into someone you donât recognize, then there is a problem. LOVE is not folding every time just to make a person feel more comfortable, stable, or secure. LOVE is understanding each otherâs weakness and helping to make them stronger. If your weakness is an element of insecurity and your partner doesnât help you overcome that, then you are either misunderstanding who your partner/friend is OR this person is not the partner/friend for you. Yes, sometimes you also have to deny yourself access to people.
Not everyone is capable to travel with you in life. You are not blocking blessings by keeping people out, you are protecting yourself from being drained by someone or people you are unsure of. YES, let them prove they can stand by you and with you. Some people are there temporarily, some are there for the lesson. Then there are some people who need more time to reach you, give them that time, but keep your focus forward. YOU are the decider of your well being. And yes, itâs hard to separate yourself if you are a giver, but you have to grip on to what keeps you at peace. You cannot give if you are depleted. I am meticulous with how much energy I give and to whom I give it to and I change the levels when necessary.
You can interact with many people and still not allow all of them access to the whole you.
I have at lease 5 different groups of friends, some from my past, some I met in passing, some I frequently see or interact with; all of them know a different part of me, some of them know a different version of me, but only a select few know all of me. â I made it that way.
I love and enjoy ALL of my friends and family, I appreciate that we are not the same. Each of them ignite different pieces of me, but I know all of them cannot, will not, or are not equipped to take the same road as me. Itâs no oneâs fault. It also wouldnât be right of me to take (possibly carry) someone on a journey they are not ready for. Therefore, access to me remains selective and limited. I trust what I know about each person in my lifeâŚread that again.
Everyone doesnât deserve access to you.