Maya Angelou and Oprah said
“When people show you who they are, believe them the first time.
~Maya Angelou
"Remember this because it will happen many times in your life. When people show you who they are the first time believe them. Not the 29th. time. When a man doesn't call you back the first time, when you are mistreated the first time, when someone shows you lack of integrity or dishonesty the first time, know that this will be followed many many other times, that will some point in life come back to haunt or hurt you. Live your life in truth. Don't pretend to be someone you're not. You will survive anything if you live your life from the point of view of truth.” ~ Oprah Winfrey.
It is so true, But it isn't always easy to believe, especially if you're like me and you want to believe people are good. You want to believe that someone couldn't possibly be that cruel towards another person. But they can be, and unfortunately THOSE people, those ones you hope are just having a bad day when they shit on you, Can be your friends your family, your in laws or someone very close to you. Let me enlighten you. They are not always having a bad day, some people are just cruel. And you know what, you are a great person, and didn't deserve any sort of shit treatment.
This experience has recently happened to me, by both my to be mother in law and sister in law. They both had sharp snake tongues, which I didn't deserve and I held my tongue. I played the higher ground and I kept my cool, for my Man. And I have done this for 5 years because I though just maybe they were having bad days. NOPE, straight up mean.
So now, after their most recent performances of true colors, I fully understand, they slipped up you see. They actually showed me what they truly thought of m. I don't believe they intended to, most of these type of people intend to, but every now and then they get cocky and let their EGO get in the way and they slip up.
But as I said at the very beginning of this post, it is oddly liberating that this has happened. Because now I KNOW where I stand and what they truly think of me. I don't have to try ANYMORE for them to like me, or accept me, I know now this may never happen. SO now I get to be ME!
I have bitten my tongue and kept my words in my stomach all these times and now I don't have to.
I can assure you, next time these people think they can treat me like shit, they are going to get a rude awaking, Because they are going to see I don't care what they think of me any more, I don't need their approval,
I am proud of myself for figureing this out, sure it took me this long, but I got there. I hope anyone who reads this will also have a liberating moment when they too realize it doesn't matter what others think of you.
It matters what you think of you. And if you have your integrity, and you can stand up for yourself, even eventually, your a better person than them. My mother always said to me. "Would you ever, ever do something to someone that they just did or said to you?" My response would always be NO
"then your already a better person"
Sending Love Light and Joy !!
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