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Don't Let What Anyone Says Get To You

People’s words do not define you.

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Don't Let What Anyone Says Get To You
Rosina Facciponte

People will use fowl words toward you. Whether it is someone who barely knows you, an ex, old friend, anyone; just remember that they probably do this because they just want attention, want to make themselves think you are the lower person to make them feel good or they just someone to talk down upon simply because they do not feel too great about themselves either.

Your strength has nothing on those words that they think are relevant. You made them really happy at some point, you must not be that bad of a person, right?

People’s words do not define you, you make yourself define you however you want because no one knows you better than you. Stand up for yourself and be bold. If you let people define you, people will see you as what they think, not what you know you are; which is a pretty special and amazing person.

People will make it seem like what happened is completely your fault but really, you know the real story. You know the quote “never regret what once made you happy,” right? These people that throw verbal bricks at you need to evaluate that.

Within time, all those things will catch up to them so don’t you worry your pretty little mind, darling. You know the story, you know what really happened, you know the real deal.

You ARE the real deal and please never let anyone take that away from you. You are so much stronger than those words, you are so much stronger than them so you do you boo! Live your life in the present through your eyes, not through someone else’s and what they think of you.

*drops mic*

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