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Get up and go on with your life. It's alright to sit around and be depressed for a minute, cry about it, do whatever you have to.. but don't stay there too long. Get up and go on with your life. This is what I learned out of all these years in this world.. if somebody wants to walk out of your life let them go. Especially if you know you've done everything you could do. You sat around and have been the best man or the best woman you could be and they still want to go let 'em go! Whatever they're running after they'll see what they had in a minute, but by then it's gonna be too late. Half these people you are sittin' around crying about and worrying about about two or three years from now you aren't even gonna remember their last name. How many times have you seen folks somewhere and been like 'what the hell was I thinking?!' I've been there I was like 'what was wrong with me? what was I going through? I must have been lonely as hell to hook up with you!' Let folks go. Some people come into your life for a lifetime, some folks come for a season. You have to know which is which. You're always going to mess up when you mix those seasonal people up with lifetime expectations. They have people that are married to people they were only suppose to be with for a season and they wonder why they have so much chaos in their life. That was a person that was suppose to come and teach you one thing & you didn't know it so you fell in love and now you wonder why you don't have any peace anywhere you go.
I put everybody that comes into my life in the category of a tree. Some people are leaves on a tree. The wind blows, they go to the left. The wind blows from the other way, they go to the right. They are just unstable. You can't count on them for nothing. All they ever do is take from that tree. What you need to understand about a leaf is that it has a season. It'll wither and die and blow away. There ain't no need to be praying over a leaf to be resurrected. When it's dead it's gone. Let it go! Some people are like that. All the leaf ever does is cool you off every now and then. If you're grown, you know what I'm talking about, because you can call them in the middle of the night and get cooled off. That's the leaf people. They come to take.
Then there are people like a branch. You got to be careful with branch people. They come in all different shapes and sizes. You never know how strong they will be in your life. So my advice is to tip out on it slowly. When you're going out on a limb, don't put too much weight on it at once, because it can fall and leave you high and dry. Sometimes, you have to wait for a branch to grow up before it can hold all of the things you want to share with it.
Finally, there are people who are like roots at the bottom of the tree. If you find yourself two or three people in your entire lifetime that are like the roots, then you are blessed. The roots don't care nothing about being seen. All they're there to do is hold that tree up, to make sure it stays in the air. It comes from the earth to give that tree everything it needs. That's what relationships should be about. That's what you need, people who want to be in your life for the right reasons. If somebody wants to walk out of your life, you've got to LET THEM GO! When you learn to love yourself, you will end up giving standards to everyone around you. Again, I repeat with emphasis, if they don't meet those standards, you have to let them go.
No matter how much it hurts, let 'em go. It'll get easier. I promise you every day it'll get easier and easier. You just have to make it through. You've got learn to be by yourself. People have to learn to be alone. I don't understand all these people "I need somebody, lord where's my man?" That is crazy as hell. If you don't know how to be by yourself what are you going to do with somebody else? Stop praying about it. Shut up and wait! Go work on you. Hell, get yourself together. I'd rather be in a corner by myself with a puppy and a goldfish and be happy than to be sitting around with somebody in my house wondering what in the hell they're there for. You would be suprised the things people put up with just to have somebody that says they love them.
I put everybody that comes into my life in the category of a tree. Some people are leaves on a tree. The wind blows, they go to the left. The wind blows from the other way, they go to the right. They are just unstable. You can't count on them for nothing. All they ever do is take from that tree. What you need to understand about a leaf is that it has a season. It'll wither and die and blow away. There ain't no need to be praying over a leaf to be resurrected. When it's dead it's gone. Let it go! Some people are like that. All the leaf ever does is cool you off every now and then. If you're grown, you know what I'm talking about, because you can call them in the middle of the night and get cooled off. That's the leaf people. They come to take.
Then there are people like a branch. You got to be careful with branch people. They come in all different shapes and sizes. You never know how strong they will be in your life. So my advice is to tip out on it slowly. When you're going out on a limb, don't put too much weight on it at once, because it can fall and leave you high and dry. Sometimes, you have to wait for a branch to grow up before it can hold all of the things you want to share with it.
Finally, there are people who are like roots at the bottom of the tree. If you find yourself two or three people in your entire lifetime that are like the roots, then you are blessed. The roots don't care nothing about being seen. All they're there to do is hold that tree up, to make sure it stays in the air. It comes from the earth to give that tree everything it needs. That's what relationships should be about. That's what you need, people who want to be in your life for the right reasons. If somebody wants to walk out of your life, you've got to LET THEM GO! When you learn to love yourself, you will end up giving standards to everyone around you. Again, I repeat with emphasis, if they don't meet those standards, you have to let them go.
No matter how much it hurts, let 'em go. It'll get easier. I promise you every day it'll get easier and easier. You just have to make it through. You've got learn to be by yourself. People have to learn to be alone. I don't understand all these people "I need somebody, lord where's my man?" That is crazy as hell. If you don't know how to be by yourself what are you going to do with somebody else? Stop praying about it. Shut up and wait! Go work on you. Hell, get yourself together. I'd rather be in a corner by myself with a puppy and a goldfish and be happy than to be sitting around with somebody in my house wondering what in the hell they're there for. You would be suprised the things people put up with just to have somebody that says they love them.