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stevmarie · 2 months

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My son loves dandelions.

He picked one the other day and brought it to me, just the unbloomed, golden head, and said it was too cold outside for it. He wanted to bring it in so it would have a chance to live.

How do you tell your son that as soon as you pick a flower, it dies?

The dreadful lessons we teach our children.

#stevmarie speaking #stevmarie #dandelion #life lessons #hard lessons #my son loves dandelions #he is my heart #I love him so much

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mycptsdstory · 10 months

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After this year, I've learned a lesson.

When someone ghosts me, I know where the door is.

When someone ghosts you, it means they aren't mature enough to have an open, honest, raw and uncomfortable conversation with you.

I've stopped blaming myself when someone ghosts me. I blame them.

Like I said in a few posts that I did; when someone can't have that open, honest, raw, uncomfortable conversation with me... I'm leaving, for good.

I know you made your bed and I made mine. By me leaving and I'm never coming back.

#trauma hard truths #ghosting #hard lessons #lessons learned #hard truths #the truth about me #harsh truth #hard truth #telling the truth #cptsdhealing #living with cptsd #cptsd problems #cptsd thoughts #cptsd vent #actually cptsd #just cptsd things #tw cptsd #actually ptsd #cptsd tag

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tv-moments · 3 months

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Slow Horses

Season 3: Real Tigers, “Hard Lessons”

Director: Saul Metzstein

DoP: Danny Cohen

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imaginaryabyss · 1 month

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If you have to repeatedly tell someone the same exact things about how you feel, and nothing changes, understand that they do not respect you.

Apologies with no change in behavior is manipulation. <—

#hard lessons #life advice #don’t be fooled #respect #self love #quote of the day #quotes #words #txt post #protect your own peace #protect your heart #feelings #love aesthetic

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your-heart-is-a-treasure · 2 years

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When they said you were going crazy, you were awakening.

When they said you were isolating, you were healing.

When they said you were acting funny, you were growing.

When they said you changed, you were evolving.

When they said you didn’t care anymore, you finally realised that your peace lives within.

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queerchoicesblog · 4 months

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Top 5 of the non-for-the-faint-of heart things the past few years taught me:

1. People think of you less than you think and forget about you quickly.

2. Give someone care and attention and they'll drop you like an old toy when they no longer need you and find someone else to flood with care and attention. Kindness only leads to emotional burnout in this messed up world, no matter how unfair this is and no, karma won't fix a thing. It's just an old myth we tell ourselves to soothe our fears. I've spent my whole life preaching for kindness, for the first time now I wonder if I should keep encouraging that though: if nobody applies it, it only makes you miserable.

3. Be an asshole, be cavalier and treat people like they don't matter much to you at the end of the day and they'll go above and beyond to please you and be there for you. It'll be their priority, you'll be their priority and they'll bestow the most revered adoration on you.

4. Never being enough is a curse either way: your mind tells you so or people show you so.

Seeing yourself when nobody sees you is incredibly hard and it bleeds your heart out in the long run.

5. You need good things happening to you every now and then in your life. Just to catch some breath. If that doesn't happen, you're trapped underwater.

#hard truth #hard lessons #might delete later #sad thoughts

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foxalone · 1 year

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Warning : Blood and Anguish

hard lessons part 2...

we all have hard lessons to learn

Yosa!Sans belongs to me

#hard lessons #undertale au #undertale fandom #undertale art #utmv #undertale multiverse #yosa!sans #underblood #Underblood art

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spookysalem13 · 8 months

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I needed to hear this. And I know I'll need to hear it again one day. For anyone else, here's a message I think you may also need to hear.

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forevertotallyyours · 1 year

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today's hard lesson to learn: you may be the main character of your story, but you're the villain in somebody else's

#life lessons #2am thoughts #writing #creative writing #original thoughts #original writing #writing prompt #prompt #bad writing #lessons #hard lessons #main character #main character energy #villain #heroes and villains #stories #wrtiters

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craigtowens · 1 year

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Easy roads teach very few valuable lessons.

Don’t ask God to get you out of these painful places, but ask Him to show you what you can learn in these painful places. And then be sure to pass along what you’ve learned to others who are in a similar place.

#Craig T. Owens #hard lessons #valuable lessons

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mycptsdstory · 9 months

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Another hard truth I had to learn; I need to stop helping people and fixing them.

I know where fixing people and helping people comes from. It comes from my family.

I'm the one who had to make sure my mother didn't go all psycho on people and I had to make sure, she is calm before she hangs out, goes out, or goes to work. I'm the one who always HAS TO make sure, she's doing okay. I even had to PERSUADE my family to get my mother help, because I couldn't do it myself. She had psychosis, bad!! Like, she thought the police were following her, the holes in the walls had cameras in, the lamp outside that lit up our street had a camera on (it was the sensor that turned on the lamp. You know, when it's dark, the lamp is turned on. Yeahh, that sensor). None of my family believed me. I had to quit therapy and uni because my mother got too much. She would scream at me, scratch at me, even attack me... To wake me up, because she thought someone was in the house, or someone following her. She even went missing, I had to call up the police because no one knew where she was. I had to call up old family friends, work colleagues and old church members. EVERYONE. I finally got help from the police who helped me get numbers to get my mother help. I DID THAT.

Then my sister; any time she had an argument with her husband, I had to be there for her. None of my family would do that, only me.

Then my granddad... He had schizophrenia and no one would help him, only me. I had to be there, to make sure he took his meds, got food inside him and so on. I was looking after him, since I could remember. I was a fucking child, a minor. My family didn't care about my sweet caring granddad. I did the best that I could.

Now, since I have to be this *care taker*, I had to be there for everyone. Over time tho, my help, wasn't helpful. My "help" actually became really toxic.

I grew up in this environment, where I had to help everyone that I can and could. I had to be there, so they would feel better. I became a sort of "therapist", to my own friends because I didn't want them to feel alone, like I was. Being a therapist for people, was so draining. If you're wondering, yeahh I did cause a lot of arguments, without me realising. Yeahh, it was wrong for me to do that.

A lot of friends left me because I wanted to help, when they simply didn't want too. That hurts, but I have to face the reality of it.

I wanted the person to heal and I never understood that, healing is a choice. Only you can heal, no one can do that for you.

I think now, since the pandemic and especially this past year, I've learnt the hard truth of "not everyone wants my help". And I had to accept the reality of it. It was hard, it was painful.

For years, I was this *care taker* for my family, since I could remember. My family used me. They never saw me as a person, a human being with emotions. They just saw me as an object. Then anyone who believes my family, sees me as an object too. I never wanted that.

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crossmyheartandhopetodie94 · 1 year

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When he left. It was the most painful thing I have ever felt.

It was the first time in my life I had ever truly been alone.

I didn’t belong to anyone.

But what I gained… what I learned. Is so valuable.

What some people NEVER learn.

I learned how to be alone. I learned how to survive, alone.

And now I know I always can.

And that opened up a world of possibilities.

I will be happy.

I will never go to bed crying every night.

I will never allow my soul to get that low again.

My kids are growing up before my eyes.

Time goes by too fast.

I’ve wasted too many years.

I will spend the rest of my life being happy.

No matter what it takes.

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tv-moments · 3 months

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Slow Horses

Season 3: Real Tigers, “Hard Lessons”

Director: Saul Metzstein

DoP: Danny Cohen

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pandathapluggg · 3 days

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Welcome.

Assuming you stumbled here because you either know me or are curious about my background and who am I really, well this is going to be the place.

My name is Amanda, I am a complicated bundle of raging dumpster fires. When I’m asked what’s wrong by with me I usually have to joke the list of things wrong with me is probably shorter.

I feel like I have so much to say and the only way I can possibly get my thoughts and feelings down will truly be by writing it out.

Today was difficult because honestly my body has been slowing down and it’s scaring me. For those of you who are not aware, I am currently almost 4 years into a debilitating condition that is still being diagnosed and treated. I was finally able to get into the Mayo Clinic at Rochester after what felt like an eternity of waiting and being bad enough that I had to finally be seen.

My current diagnosis list includes: idiopathic gastroparesis, autonomic dysfunction/neuropathy, neurocardiogenic syncope, physical deconditioning, hyopkalemia due to excessive gastrointestinal loss of potassium… and a whole lot more but this is just the main tip of the iceberg.

My episodes has included blacking out/passing out, shortness of breath, chest pain, pounding heart, sweaty and clammy and unable to regulate my body temperature and vomiting.

I am currently waiting to be seen by the GI department at Mayo Clinic, as June was the first availability. Unfortunately dealing with the healthcare system for the last 4 years, the waiting and trying to find the answers has been the hardest part.

My brain has been in some of the darkest places lately and I hate it. Every day lately I have felt like I am just counting down the days until my body just stops and I can’t keep going anymore.

With a 200 lb weight loss from being unable to tolerate food and certain beverages anymore, my life doesn’t even look anything like what it used to. I so badly crave stability and wanting to be able to physically handle things again. I want to be able to drive again.. even just be able to walk without needing to rest. Half of me is begging not to give up while the other half is literally just too tired to want to try anymore.

But, I continue one day and one step at a time. And now, one blog at a time.

I apologize in advance for the dark moments, probably swearing and profanity that will end up here. But, you have been warned.

Goodnight. More soon.

#chronic illness #chronic pain #weight #weight loss #health #dysautonomia #gastroparesis #neurocardiogenic syncope #hard lessons #send help

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savagebeautyqueen · 4 days

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#the players club #life quotes #lifehack #life lessons #hard life #hard lessons #soft life #black cinema #south central

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curiouszen · 3 months

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challenging lessons —

Broken dolls, we are, though our wounds are internal.

Put all my broken eggs in one basket

maybe they will make me a omelette.

A 16-year sacrifice, and

A 14-year commitment, and

A 20-year sentence for being a prisoner of my own prejudices,

I still have yet to earn one prize…

Maybe this month, maybe this year

When I cry out into the dark void,

Nothingness reaches in and punctures my sails.

Walk barefoot on this path of jagged rocks

to build the sort of tough character you deserve

you’ll be stronger and better for the cutting experiences… but,

Confidence does not come from suffering,

Pain does not bring rewards,

the energies are not interchangeable, not fungible

Rage only fuels rage, serenity only fuels serenity

Many sayings are just nonsensical

And sometimes you are so un/lucky

The value of this I appreciate more and better…

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Day 10. February Series

#hard lessons #lessons learned #nonsensical #judgment #divine judgment #daily musings #daily writing #original writing #self awareness #self discipline #day 10 #week 6 #february #zengenevievetoo #curiouszen

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