The best advice I’ve ever received came from a television show or an actor or maybe even a TED Talk; honestly, I can’t remember. It doesn’t matter because it changed my life, and I try to live by it every single day: “The only person who you have to lay down with every night and be happy with their actions is yourself.” Whenever I make a decision, I think to myself is this what I want, or is it what I did to please. If it’s something I did to please, I make sure never to compromise and do it again.
Obviously, everything is contextual, and what’s minor to me might be significant to you, but nonetheless, I am very well set in the mind frame of, I did it, and I’m happy with it. Growth is inevitable, and in the future, if I feel like, oh no, I made a mistake back then, I forgive myself for not knowing better and not doing better. I also give myself the grace to be wrong, not just with myself but with others and their perception of me based on how I treated them or others around them.
When I go to bed at night, I no longer judge my actions harshly. I say my prayers, go to bed and wake up knowing that I am living my life for me and me only in this day and age. IF I make others happy along the way, then so be it, but regardless of anyone’s feelings on how I should mold to society, I go to bed happy, slightly hungry, and whole every night.
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