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It’s best I don’t divulge where I’ve witnessed it, but it’s everywhere so it’s difficult to miss. We seem to believe that being modest is a good thing, but what if you were really just undercutting yourself?

Is this why we end up in terrible relationships, dead end jobs…with poor health but strange idealism of attractiveness, sexuality and power?

Any time in my life that I stooped low, condensed myself, shrunk or lowered what I was expecting, I got kicked in the teeth. Not just once, or twice…often. As if the perpetrator wanted to make sure to lay me as low as possible. It has taught me that it isn’t bad to dream – no one wants you to succeed in such a way that it blows them out of the water.

Your focus should be yourself. Stooping low to give someone comfort will end in your failure. Misery enjoys company. People who are short sighted, selfish, and blind to their own ambition and potential will always look for new prey. Or go back to their favorites!

It is only up to you to decide how your story will go. It’s not normal to be in pain, to lose, to not understand. It is normal to be exceptional and excellent. It’s funny that those who try to bog us down want us to excellently wash their dishes and clean their houses. But when we go off for ourselves to do things in such a way…suddenly we’re a threat.

While you really should clean…your life is more than what someone is trying to project on you. I no longer have space for people who have excuses as to why their life isn’t the way they’d like – because I am constantly asked how I do so much for myself. Primarily…we are not the same. That, and I do not think like most people.

I prefer to keep it that way!