Stop Chasing People Who Can't See You -- They Don't Deserve You
I Almost Spent My Whole Life Making This Mistake. Now I'm Free
I’m taking a step back—from everything.
I used to obsess over adding more friends on Facebook, collecting likes and comments like they meant something. Not anymore. I purged 90% of my “friends” and stopped adding new people altogether.
Now, I’m waiting.
I’m standing completely still to see who notices.
Who reaches out?
Who thinks about me?
Who shows up when I stop chasing?
This little experiment has been eye-opening. I finally see who values me—and who never really did.
Take my former dance crew, for example.
I was part of this group for almost two years. We met every Tuesday night, and I showed up weekly, hoping to feel like I belonged.
But no matter how hard I tried or how much I gave, they kept me on the outside.
At first, I thought if I just showed up more, smiled more, tried harder… they’d finally accept me. But it didn’t matter.
Some people were hell-bent on keeping me out, no matter what I did.
And when I finally saw it for what it was—when I stopped making excuses for their aloofness and o…
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