Listen I want you to say your name out loud real quick. Did you hear that? Yeah that’s you. You’re your on person. You aren’t your friend Tasha, Jerald, Lacey, or Chris. You are yourself. Now let’s get into the real tea here. You aren’t special! Nope, not to the people around you. Yes, I said what I said. Don’t expect anything from anybody because they don’t owe you ANYTHING!
You ever notice when someone is doing good, they tell someone their blessings and then the “friend” doesn’t give props where props are due. Well this person is called one of the 7 deadly sins…ENVY. Imagine that but in a deep voice or something with some dark music in the back. I can’t stress this enough not everybody wants to see you winning. Some people are around to bring you down.
So your probably wondering “what does this have to with influence though?”. Dang, be patient I’m here already! This is to deal with influence because people who aren’t happy with themselves like to bring others down through the power of influence. You read that, you wanna read that again or what?
Say your at a party, right. You don’t smoke, drink, have sex with randoms…etc. You just like to have a good time and be with the people you enjoy. Well there’s that ONE friend. The ONE who does all those things. Their the ONE who wants you to go stupid and go crazy with them. If you are comfortable with who you are and they still want you to change and do the things they do, it’s time to wake up and smell the trash. That’s not your friend sweetie. A real friend would understand the person that you are and let you do you and them, them. But, most people who aren’t happy with the way their living love to bring others into the mix of their lifestyle so they don’t feel like a mess by themself.
That’s why I say it’s important to love yourself. When you love yourself, nothing that anybody is doing can make you feel some type of way. If you don’t like to go out then you don’t like to go out. If you don’t like drinking then that’s you. No sex? Cool, that’s all you. Quit looking at other people’s lives thinking you have to be like them.
Well I’m done here. But I’m going to say this EACH blog I write because it’s what I live by. Here it is.
I SAID WHAT I SAID AND I MEAN’T WHAT I SAID!
I Said What I Said and I Mean’t What I Said! 