11/04/2021
It is NOT your responsibility to make other people happy‼️
It’s not your fault if someone gets mad when you set a boundary. It’s not your responsibility to pursue a career just to make your parents proud. It is not your job to do anything you don’t want to do to keep other people happy.
Coming from a super strict latinx home I learned that I had to be who my mom and family wanted me to be to feel accepted and loved, but as I grew up I realized that who they wanted me to be didn’t align with who I really was deep down.
In fact, I didn’t even really know who I was because I was so focused on being what other people wanted me to be.
But here’s a hard truth. In order to find yourself and figure out who you are you have to be willing to disappoint people.
You have to be willing to go against the grain and move towards your happiness even if others don’t understand it or accept it.
You’re only responsibility in this world is to be happy and you can only do that by being yourself. People may not agree with it at first, you may loose some friends and some family might get distant but everyone makes they’re choices.
People can either choose to love and accept you as you are, even if it’s not what they want OR people can choose to not be close to you or in your life at all. Ultimately that’s their choice.
It’s okay to loose people but as you heal and grow you realize that what’s not okay is loosing yourself for others.
If you have to choose, choose you and watch as the right people choose you too ✨
Now say it with me:
“I am not responsible for other people’s happiness!!”
It’s time to put your happiness first my love 🧡