Puzzle

For so many years (too many), I let people walk all over me. I spent so long trying to make other people happy, and by other, I mean everyone. It was all that encapsulated my mind. If someone around me wasn't happy, that was my responsibility to make them happy, to put the pieces back together. Every time I put someone else's pieces back together, one of my mine would fall off. Eventually, my pieces were scattered all over the place. 

It has taken me two years to put those pieces back together, but these two years have been two of the best years with some of the hardest moments in my life so far. 

Why am I telling you this? Certain things have presented themselves to me once again, but this time, I'm not letting my pieces be scattered everywhere. Two years ago, it would be a different story. I am so much stronger than I was then. Now, I know to take care of myself first and let go of things I can't change and to rid my life of toxic people. I know not to let little things get out of control. I know now to take care of a situation and actually confront it. I'm not here for everyone else. I'm here for me.

I'm not saying I won't be there for others or put other people's happiness first. I just won't put others first all the time anymore. I need to put myself first sometimes in order to stay whole, just like everyone else. 

Go ahead and pick up your pieces, put them back together with glue stronger than ever before.