Curate your relationships, yourself —personal and professional. Don’t sublet or annex them. Don’t place, or leave them in the hands of others, to manipulate or define. Your relationships don’t need overseeing, handling, rearranging, categorizing, critiquing, or micromanaging. Rock with whoever YOU want, based on your criteria, history, and experiences, not someone else’s opinions or beefs.
You don’t have to prove anything to anyone by breaking confidentiality, relaxing, or disregarding the boundaries you’ve set. Cultivate trust. This way, when opportunistic, unnecessarily competitive people, who traffic in transactional, superficial relationships, attempt to test the strength, closeness, longevity, or integrity of YOUR relationships, you and your dear friends and associates can get a good laugh at how relentlessly some people try (and fail) to weasel, insert, or attach themselves, dismiss/replace you, create erroneous narratives, control plans, sow discord, or altogether dissolve the unity you enjoy. Don’t give busybodies an inch. Let them think whatever they want. You don’t owe them explanations.
If you’re blessed to have good, wise, consistent, principled friends, who respect and trust you, (and the feeling is mutual), by all means, you’re very fortunate. Keep them.
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