Notes on Life

One of the most beautiful things about maturing emotionally is recognizing that you don't need everyone to like you.
This doesn't mean you're inconsiderate or disrespectful - in fact, it's the opposite. You don't need to live in a land of binaries anymore. You get to be a whole, complicated, nuanced, multi-layered person and so do other people.

You know that your worth doesn't lie in validation from the outside world. You care about what your people think of you, but you don't try to control how they see you.
You are messy sometimes. And other times you are taking things in stride.
You are joyful, warm, and silly.
And you can be broody, temperamental, and persnickety, too.
You have soft, tender places, and sometimes you get stuck for longer than you'd like.
It's fine. You're human. You're allowed.

We begin to see that the more we accept ourselves and our own faults, the easier it becomes to connect with others who accept us and our faults, too.
In time, we also notice that the things we reject in ourselves are the things we tend to reject in others, so when someone judges you harshly, it usually has less to do with you than it may seem.

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