Hi! 🥰 Welcome back to Grace’s blog 🥳 thank you for being consistent and always letting me have a part of your time. To my new readers, it’s such an honour to be graced with your attention and the presence of your mind, I hope this will not be the last time.

Have you ever wished that you could just go off to an island alone and live out the rest of your life in solitude and peace? Away from everything, especially other people. Yes? Well so have I, and I’m guessing most of us have been so frustrated and hurt by people at some point in our lives and we’ve thought that being alone and shutting everyone out will have to be okay.

We are social by nature and for that reason most of what happens to us is directly linked with the involvement of other people. You might have a theory that proves otherwise; robots, for instance. Yes, the theories might get a hearing, but until proven otherwise that emotions can be manufactured, you need people.

As much as that is true, I understand that relationships are the most complicated things to deal with as humans. Your friends, family, neighbours, colleagues, bosses, acquaintances, mentors, teachers, celebrities, coaches and even strangers, to mention a few, always play a part in your feelings, emotions, logic and your mood.

That’s why you might fight a stranger for calling you stupid and not when your friend does, because we treat each other in accordance to the role they play in our lives.

Well I have come to three conclusions about our relationships with other people, and I would not agree to your solitude, I need you, many more people do too. People are fickle, suck it up and live your life regardless.

1. People treat you how they treat themselves 
2. People treat you how they want to be treated 
3. People treat you how you treat them

This is the simplest way I think you can understand relationships and learn not to take things personally. If you are aware of your role in people’s lives and can also decipher how they treat you, you’re well on your way to avoiding a lot of drama.

I know you can already section your relationships into the conclusions mentioned above, and keep in mind that people act out the selfishness of their own feelings most of the time. That includes me and you.

If people treat you badly, walk through the conclusions before you deal with it. If you’re the culprit, let people know their place in your life and stop enabling toxicity. We are all villains in someone’s story, but we can be saints in many others’.

Yay🥳 you read through! Thank you ☺️ I’m sure you learnt something, well this week’s song pick doesn’t have much to do with the article, it’s just the mood I want us to take into the week😁👇🏽

~Dynamite – BTS~

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