🪷 Require More Respect

a learning-poem to help me better grasp BOUNDARIES

The way is not to try to prevent
other people from getting upset,
but to do my thing—and if they get mean,
require from them more respect.

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trees standing tall with their autumn colors (last week)

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In the Notebook

journaling some sense into myself

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Some other posts I’ve written on this topic so far (I’m sure there will be more!):

• 🏝️ Other people’s social expectations of me are their own business

• 🎵Just Tend My Territory

• 🪷 Where I’ll Find True Safety

• 🌊Where Do We Look for Safety?

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