therapist

date written: august 30, 2015

my therapist once said: you need to demand respect from not only other people but from yourself. tell people how you feel toward things, how they take that information is entirely up to them. sometimes all you can do is respect yourself enough to tell people how you feel and let them decide the rest.

a few months later he proceeds to tell me: you’re a sensitive person, and I can see that. you have a big heart that’s full of worrying. but you can not let that stop you from expressing your emotions. if someone is doing something that is upsetting you, the time you was over thinking what was said or done, is time you could be using to tell that person what they did was upsetting. you have to just be up front and tell people how you feel. if they’re worth the time, then they’ll listen and understand. but you can not waste the time that you should be using to correct them, over thinking and letting the chance slip from your fingers.