Wednesday, 02 June 2010

• Shoutout To The Past

  I woke up today and had a word in my spirit! A rant in my soul. A preach in my heart! And I got on Twitter to do it. Here are my tweets with some additions. I couldn't let this get erased in the Twitter abyss.
  
  Here's to folks who think they know your life when they don't know you from Adam, Eve, Meshack, Shadrack and that billy goat. They don't know you from the can of paint or the paintbrush. They don't even know you from your ID and they want to say something. Please fall back.
  
  #Shoutout to old friends you've outgrown because they're in different life cycles as you. Your lives just aren't parallel right now and it's okay.Props to friends you can never outgrow even after months of not speaking. Those are the roots to your tree. They feed it and give it life. They don't need constant watering to stay strong.
  
  #Shoutout to the friends in your life who are leaves. The wind blows one way and they follow it. Know when to let these leaves fly away. They aren't meant to hang on.
  
  #Shoutout to the branches in your life. They're the ones who look solid but will break away at a strong gust. Here's to knowing when to let them fall.
  
  #Shoutout to knowing the difference between the folks who are leaves, branches and roots. They are there for a reason, season or lifetime. Hold on to those roots. Let the leaves and branches fall away. When folks serve their purpose in our lives, something typically happens that shows they need to go. Some of us super loyal folks want to hold on to people when they're done in our lives. We need to let folks go. They aren't meant to walk with us. Turn away.
  
  #Shoutout to hurt feelings from friendships old. Here's to the ones that overstayed their welcome and overused our energy.
  
  

  

  
  
  #Shoutout to folks that walk away from you and come back after realizing their mistake.#Bigups to the "no thanks" they get.
  
  #Shoutout to forgiving but not forgetting the past. Forgetting means you learned nothing from it. Forgive for your own peace but don't forget.
  
  #Shoutout to patterns in our lives we don't pay attention to because we don't do enough self-reflecting. It's not always them. Sometimes, it's us.
  
  #Shoutout to having to walk away from toxic people whose entire beings are permeated by BAD. Sometimes you have to walk away for your own sanity.
  
  #Shoutout to the folks who make you question the good of humanity. You exist to balance them out. This is why you're who you are. Everyone can't be the reprehensible human being. The good in you is their antithesis.
  
  #Shoutout to knowing that when all is said and done, you can't allow someone's actions to change your character. Stay true to yourself so the mirror can smile back at you.
  
  #Shoutout to folks who've taken my kindness for weakness. My smiles for ignorance.  My cool for leverage. You thought mighty wrong.
  
  #Shoutout to folks who think my life is in competition with theirs. My purpose for living isn't the same as yours and it wasn't meant to diminish yours. God put us all on this Earth for different reasons. That's like you trying to race with me when I do gymnastics and you throw discus.
  
  #Shoutout to wanting to live a good life. Stepping on as few folks as I can as I climb the ladder to greater places meant for me.
  
  I'm more flawed than the gums of a veteran crackhead but I'ma keep working on me, nah mean? That's alls I'm saying. That's alls I can do.
  
  

  "They went out from us, but they did not really belong to us. If they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us" - 1 John 2:19

  
  Oh AND I must leave w/ this. *Maya Angelou bass voice* "When people show you who they are, BELIEVE them!"

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