What is your way of being useful?

Robert Fulghum

Often, without realizing it, we fill important places in each other’s lives. It’s that way with the guy at the corner grocery, the mechanic at the local garage, the family doctor, teachers, coworkers, and neighbors. Good people who are always “there,” who can be relied upon in small, ordinary ways. People who, by example, teach us, bless us, encourage us, support us, uplift us in the daily-ness of life. 

I want to be one of those. 

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There comes a day when you no longer feel the need to prove anything to anyone….

“There comes a day when you no longer feel the need to prove anything to anyone. Not because you’ve given up, but because you’ve grown.”

You grow tired — tired of explaining, of justifying, of shrinking yourself to fit into other people’s lives.

Tired of waiting for messages that never come, apologies that never arrive, people who don’t know how to love.

The truth is simple:

Not everyone will understand you.

Not everyone will stay.

Not everyone will treat you the way you deserve.

But they don’t have to.

Because there comes a moment when you choose peace.

You choose silence over reaction.

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