Tag: Friends

The Cost Of Being True To Yourself

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Personal Development, Personal Growth

Nothing is free. ‘Everything comes with a price.’ Life comes with a price. Success comes with a price. Peace comes with a price. Growth comes with a price. Love comes with a price. Relationships cost something. Because nothing is free. Even your own growth is going to make some people unhappy. Because you are going forward. It is going to happen. But do not focus on what other people are saying about your life.

If you can just focus on what you are doing, if you can let go of people who are working day and night to bring you down, if you can trust yourself, if you can find your own way in your life, if you can trust your way, if you do not allow other people’s negative comments to distract you, if you can manage those who are not happy with you, if you can stop trying to please everybody, then you are being true to yourself.

No matter what is going on in your life, being true to yourself is the best way to go. Do not lie to yourself. Do not put yourself last. Do not try to make everyone your friend. Do not try to apologize for your success. Be proud of your failures. Because they made you who you are today.

But life comes with a price. Are you willing to pay it?

Do You Really know Who Your Friends Are?

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Personal Development, Personal Growth

Friends are important. The question is, ‘Do you really know who your friends are?’ Do you know what they are doing? Do you know how they treat other people? Do you know how they talk about things they do not understand? Do you know what they do when they are alone? Do you know what they are going after in life? Do you know what they like? Do you know what they do not like?

What about you? How do they talk about you? How do they treat you? Do they celebrate you when you win something? What about when you lose? Do they get angry when you tell them something great about yourself? Are they willing to work with you? Are they mean to you? Are they jealous of you?

Look, friends are important to you, to me, to others. But no one wants to be around people who are going to make you unhappy. No one wants to be with a bad friend, a jealous sucker. No one wants to be with a terrible person.

If you are not comfortable with your friends, you have a choice: move away from them.

If you do not, you are fooling yourself.