Why You Should Be Done With Explaining Yourself to People Who Don’t Listen
You know that moment when the smoke clears? When you’re looking at the same people, the same situations, but suddenly everything is crystal clear? That’s where you sI am right now, and honestly, it’s both liberating and infuriating.
The Truth That Cuts Deep
It’s wild how you can know something deep down but still just look over it and allow yourself get caught up in the illusion. Those people from your past who keep showing up in your present like some twisted déjà vu – you always knew what they were about. The games, the manipulation, the way they’d circle back whenever it was convenient for them. But there’s a difference between knowing and really seeing.
Now I see it all. Crystal clear.
The fake relationships that were never real. The endless cycle of break up to make up, like some exhausting dance where nobody wins. The “what could have beens” and “should have beens” that kept me looking backward instead of forward. All those missed opportunities because I was too busy trying to change outcomes that were never meant to be changed – at least not for anyone’s benefit but my own.
Same Games Different Seasons
Would also try to manipulate the situation, thinking that they are smart enough to get what they want while avoiding the consequences. But karma has a sense of humor, doesn’t it? Those schemes backfire spectacularly, and suddenly you’re right back where you started, to everyone playing the same tired ass game that they did in the past and brought it with them to the present. (present asking bout the past. Past asking about present).
The people from the past who lusted with you to the present are the ones who use you when it’s convenient for them, and disappear when it’s not. The ones who keep you on a string, feeding you just enough to keep your attention on them. But never enough to know how to satisfy you. The fake friends, the disloyalty from family, these people only see you as an option rather than a priority.
The Moment of Truth
But here’s something you should’ve said years and years ago, you should start saying now with complete faith:
Fuck all of that🖕And fuck all of them.
There, you said it. You should’ve stop and said the in the past instead of playing along, instead of hoping things would change, instead of giving some people the benefit of the doubt they never deserved.
Goodbye, Past
With that being said, it’s time to say goodbye to the past. Not just the bad parts – all of it. The whole messy, complicated web of should-haves and could-haves and what-ifs.
Goodbye to the people who only valued you when it was convenient.
Goodbye to the fake relationships built on nothing but habit and familiarity.
Goodbye to the version of yourself that would think you could change people or outcomes through sheer will and manipulation.
Goodbye to settling for crumbs when you deserved the whole damn meal and second’s.
Letting Go Equals Freedom
There’s something about finally seeing things – and people – for what they really are. No more blind people glasses. No more making excuses for behavior that was never acceptable. No more giving people unlimited chances just to keep on disappointing you.
The truth can hurt. But it’s also clean. Pure. Real.
Moving Forward
From here on, it’s all about authenticity. Real connections or nothing at all. People who choose you consistently, not just when they’re bored or lonely or need something. Relationships built on mutual respect, not convenience or nostalgia.
The past had its lessons, and we should learned from them. That some people and things from your past that came all this way with you since day one are golden. It’s just the other ones you have to watch and stay away from. They know who they are. So, now it’s time to close that chapter – permanently – and start something new. Something real.
Something that actually serves the person you are becoming, not that person you used to be.
Yeah, goodbye 👋 past. Thanks for the lessons, but I’m done looking backward✌️.
It’s back to the future, and for the first time in a long time, I’m ready to answer🧛.