Jae Anne💜

I’m mature enough to admit that due to the things I was put through in life, I’m a hard person to deal with sometimes. I overthink, I’m easily triggered, and can be hard to understand. I’m beyond sensitive, and require a lot of patience. But I also know that my love is like no other. I can give you the world as mine is falling apart. I’m still so full of love & my heart is pure. I don’t give up on people until I have no choice to.

I’ll never forget the day my professor changed my whole perspective on love. The class was loud until he asked, “If you’re in a relationship, do you still get crushes?” Silence washed over us. He drew a heart, wrote “Loyalty” and “Faithfulness” inside. “So if love contains these, why does someone else still catch your attention?”No one could answer. I whispered, “Because it’s not love.” He turns, smiles knowingly. “Exactly. Just because you’re in a relationship doesn’t mean you’re already in love. Sometimes we’re only in a relationship because we love the idea of being with someone who cares for us.” That line stayed with me. He wasn’t just teaching a subject… he was teaching life. 🫶

so much of adulthood is just grieving in secret. grieving ex lovers, grieving dead friendships, grieving your parents sinking into old age, grieving the person you thought you'd grow into. grieving cities you never got to live in. grieving parts of you that couldn't survive.

And it was soo true when they said, "We mature by damage and not by age".

Me thinking about cutting everybody off & moving away

The highest form of love is consideration. When someone thinks about how things would make you feel. Pays attention to detail. Holds you in regard when making decisions that could affect you. In any bond, how much they care about you can be found in how much they consider you.

Your impact on other people is bigger than you think. Someone still giggles when they think of that funny thing you said. Someone still smiles when they think of the compliment you gave them. Someone silently admires you. The advice you give has made a difference for people. The support and love you've offered others has made someone's day. Your input and opinions have made someone think twice. You're not insignificant and forgotten. Your existence makes a positive difference, whether you see it or not.

If you're young, remember... Growth is stressful. Stagnation is stressful. Decline is stressful. The only “stress free” people…are dead people.

I think when you’re transitioning from being a people pleaser into somebody with more boundaries it can feel so weird—it's hard to tell if you’re being mean or if you’re actually just respecting your own feelings, bcoz you’re so used to putting other people's feelings above yours

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I don't distance myself from anybody to teach them a lesson, I distance myself because I've finally learned mine.

Unhealed trauma will sometimes give you a high tolerance threshold to emotional abuse. Just because you can handle it well doesn't mean you have to endure it.

Maturity is realizing you can't grow with people who lack a growth mindset and accountability because they don't want to do the work and they'll shift the blame to you, play the victim, make you the villain in their story to tell others, and drag your name through the mud.

The older you get, the more you choose calm over chaos and distance over disrespect. You start prioritising your peace, mental health, and happiness — over EVERYTHING.

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Forgive yourself for the times you continued to stay in toxic relationships to prove your worth and loyalty and tolerated a lot of sh*t you didn't deserve because you were afraid to lose people.

Even with it’s roots in the dirtiest, muddiest waters, the lotus produces the most beautiful flower. Much like our path to enlightenment + total embodiment; which is why this sacred flower holds profound symbolism with purity, rebirth, strength. Trusting in it’s own unfolding. 🪷