So true.
Holland & I had this very conversation the other Day.
I don't hang with people who treat me badly - and I don't waste my precious time on people who aren't worth my time (meaning they treat me badly to my face & behind my back): they don't hog my phone time, they don't cross my threshold, and they don't rent space in my head.
Doesn't matter who they are: parents, siblings, cousins, children, grandchildren, in-laws … ect. If they are rotten people, they do not get to foul up the Life I am creating in the Now.
My immediate circle is small - very small. It is made up of people who spread love like confetti because they have good souls. They will pray for me when asked … without phishing for details to gossip about, instead of praying as requested. We will walk beside each other in silence - just to share presence and offer loving support. We are kind and gentle with each other: because we have, individually, experienced unspeakable pain and gone through harrowing hardships others cannot even in their wildest dreams conceive of. We lavish each other with what the world has savagely withheld.
A wider circle with a larger number of people bringing so much turbulent chaos with them, would not be peaceful. Looking over my shoulder is not how I want to spend my time. Worrying about a Judas kiss, or who is an axe welder, is not how I want to engage with those I surround myself with.
And I don't understand WHY anyone would.
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