Choosing Your Circle Wisely

We explore the crucial importance of surrounding yourself with people who genuinely care about your wellbeing and reciprocate the energy you put into relationships. The harmful patterns of one-sided friendships and family relationships that drain rather than sustain us require honest self-evaluation.

• Choosing friends wisely is essential for maintaining positive energy
• One-sided relationships are like watering a plant that gives nothing back
• Taking time to re-evaluate your social circle when something feels off
• Recognizing when family members hurt you despite shared DNA
• Setting boundaries with people who only appear when they need something
• Sometimes self-isolation is necessary to gain clarity about what you truly want
• Understanding the difference between listening to others' problems and becoming overwhelmed
• Focusing on spiritual, health, and fitness goals as part of personal growth

Need to self-isolate for a while and actually understand what I want. I'm already pursuing what I want to do and learning as I go, but I need to narrow down my focus—spiritually, health-wise, fitness—because all of these play a part in what I truly want from life.

Transcript

Choose Your Friends Wisely

Speaker 1 0:00

And this is so serious , like you gotta , you gotta , you gotta , you gotta choose your friends wisely . You gotta want to be around people that want to be around you . You gotta want to feed into the energy that's feeding into you . It's like watering a plant that is being grown and you're not giving it any water and it's basically dehydrated , asking for water and you're not feeding it and it's going to eventually dry you out and die , not to like be technical with it . Like obviously not , actually we're gonna die , but and it's just like .

Speaker 1 0:33

I kid you not , I hate , I don't hate , I love when I come to the conclusion , like dang , I need to re-self-evaluate what . What in the actual fludge am I doing and why am I around these people and why am I doing the things I'm doing

Time For Self-Evaluation

Speaker 1 0:50

? Like what's been happening to me that I had to go to this extent , and like things haven't drastically been happening , but it's just like things have been happening , but I haven't actually took the time to think and actually cope with what's going on . And now that I'm actually going through stuff and actually experiencing things the way I actually experience them , it hurts me more to see the actual things that are happening for what it is and I have to take it for what it's . What's what's happening and one thing is going to lead to another . You're going to see a lot of bad habits people are creating for themselves and I feel bad because it's like you see these people and you love them , but they constantly , constantly , constantly hurting themselves and it's like no matter what you tell them , they want you to be there when they want you there , but when you need them , it's like they were never to be found . Are those people really your friends ? Are those people really your family ? Are those people so called love and

Questioning True Friendships

Speaker 1 1:50

and actually running through the same blood ? Not even like running the same blood , but like you guys have the same last name , same like blood and dna and shit , like you know , and those same people will fuck you up I mean not like I need some cousin , but it's like them same people will hurt you and constantly hurt you and make you feel belittled or less of yourself because you're not at where you they want you to be , because you're not feeding into their habits and their bad habits and their wrongdoings . It's like , okay , you're a piece of shit and I hate that people .

Speaker 1 2:30

I should stop saying I hate , because I honestly don't hate , but I dislike where certain people have tendencies to put their problems on other people because , like I don't , like I don't mind listening , I'm like I'm not a therapist but shit .

Speaker 1 2:40

I don't want to listen to people's problems all the time and maybe that's selfish

Need For Self-Isolation

Speaker 1 2:50

of me to say , but it's's just like it's overwhelming knowing that other people's going through shit and I'm going through shit , like I just I'm just a person . I need to self isolate myself for a while and actually understand what I want . Like I understand what I want and I'm pursuing what I'm doing and I'm learning as I'm going , but actually spiritually , health-wise , like fitness , all this stuff like plays a part of what you want in life and you're gonna have to . I really just want to narrow it down on what I want to do and where I'm going , because at this point it's just like , oh , it's a headache to have to think about certain stuff and just be around certain people . It's just my energy is low right now , like it could be , because I want my monthly but like , probably not , probably the fudge not , and we're gonna go to walmart . This is my little rant for like four minutes .