Hello lovelies & Happy Self-Love Sunday!
I hope this past week has been fantastic for you & that this upcoming week will be even better. I just want to give you all a quick little update on my week & life before we dive into this blog 🙂 So this past week happened to be midterm week for me, as well homecoming week! I was beyond ready for the week to be here, but it seemed as if it came so fast and ended even faster. And what made it bittersweet was that this was my last homecoming as an undergraduate student. So I was beyond busy with school and homecoming festivities, but I am also beyond happy to be writing this for you all today.

Today’s topic kind of appeared to me throughout the week when I was thinking about my feelings and it’s been so heavy on my heart that I had to share. I have a tendency of taking some situations, words, and others things too personally OR just personal in general. And I know for sure that I am not the only person who experiences these moments where things just get to them.

It can be hard to take and leave things for what they are. And it can be easy to automatically take things to heart. But this week I saw this quote that really inspired this post (which is displayed above). It’s not always about me OR you. Sometimes things just happen or people just say things. And it just is what it is. It’s not personal, but it occurred. You have to let it go and move forward. And I have been taking some situations personally lately. They’ve been bothering me, hurting my heart & killing my spirit. But as I analyzed these situations after reading that Tweet, I realize that these situations aren’t as personal as I’ve been taking them.

Sometimes people just lie, some people are just rude, some people will hurt you (unintentionally & intentionally), and do a plethora of other things that we may probably never understand. But that’s a them problem and not a you problem. You can’t control how people behave and you definitely can’t control how they will behave in regards to you. Some people may be a work in progress, just like me, and just like some of you. I am not justifying behavior, but just exploring possible causes for people and how these actions can cause people to take things personally. The only certain thing you can control is how you react and whether or not you take what they do to heart, whether you take it personally.

We are only human and therefore, we feel, act, and react as human beings. I know that my feelings can get hurt easily. And sometimes, I allow my feelings to block and cloud my judgment. I began to take things personally and act accordingly, in my mind. But that is not okay. Every thing is not a direct attack to or on me. I am working on moving forward and letting go. It’s not easy, but it’s doable.

I am writing all of this to say, everything isn’t a direct attack on you either. Don’t take everything personal. When people speak on who you are, how you behave, judge you, and more don’t take it personal! You know you better than anyone else. You know your heart & they are only speaking based off of assumptions. So let them assume and you keep doing you.It MAY feel personal, but who cares? Life goes on and so should you. You are special, valuable and worthy. You are worth being loved, especially by yourself! So I challenge you to join me, as I work on not taking things personal & embracing what I know to be true about myself. Keep in mind to never take it personal and keep being the wonderful, majestic, worthy of love you that you are!