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You Must Decide If You Want To Sink With Unhealed People Or Swim
You are divinely guided by an invisible, primal force of nature that loves you and will work behind the scenes to help you swim, not drown.
Ever since I was a child I hated whenever someone felt the need to tell me what to do or give me unsolicited advice under the guise of being helpful. Their sentences usually started off like this:
“You know, you should…”
“You shouldn’t do…”
“Well, I wouldn’t…”
“Oh, you’ll change your mind.”
“You don’t mean that.”
Actually, yes the fuck I do. I mean every word I say and my lifestyle backs that up. I am an actualized woman who is deeply in tune with herself. I am the literal embodiment of “I said what I said.”
So I always had a visceral reaction to the demands everyone had over my own life that was mine to craft exactly the way I pleased, but at the time I couldn’t pinpoint why. Part of my frustration stemmed from their audacity to believe that because I was young and because I was a woman I didn’t know shit. I was seen as an idiot who needed direction from directionless people.
