" You can't change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it"

Isn't it funny how people love to dish out words to others like they are above it all. Like they have no flaws of their own, like they are the poster child for a perfect life. They will walk around and point out every single thing that you are doing wrong, like they have the authority to do that.

I often would find myself up at insane hours of the night trying to figure out where all this negative energy was coming from and why they would feel the need to come at me with such hate. The only answers I could ever come up with, was that I really was everything they were saying, that I really was f*cking up that bad. It drove me to hate them and want to put them in their place, because lord knows I could in the blink of an eye. But I didn't, because I was reminded of something:

" When people tear you down, they find satisfaction in a reaction"

That hit me so hard. I was taken back to when I was a kid and my brother and I would fight. My mom always said,the satisfaction comes in the reaction, if there is no reaction, there is no satisfaction. It's a simple thought, and honestly sounds too good to be true, but I know she isn't wrong, because It worked on my brother, why can't it work on those who feel the need to dish sh*t out? What satisfaction would they gain if I wasn't brought down to their level? Why let them control the reaction? What if we just ignored and kept on going the way we always do? Would everything stop? Probably not, but that's okay because as long as you rise above and not drop down, eventually karma will run its course.

So this is to the ones who think they can tear us down. Who think that threatening us and pulling cards about our current situations is the way they get ahead. To the ones who refuse to step back and take a look at their current situation and how f*cked up it is before they start picking at ours. This one is for you:

You can throw your shade, you can dish your insults, I urge you to do your worst. I will no longer give you an ounce of my time. I will no longer let you try and control me. I will react by not reacting, because without a reaction, you have no satisfaction.

I wish you the best, maybe one day you will wake up and realize this is not the way it needs to go, but I am not holding my breath for that one!