Those around you that wish to put you down, control you, and hurt you exist to challenge you. To challenge your strength and your willpower. To challenge your reality and what you think, believe, and accept about yourself and the world around you. They were put there to test you. They are not the first nor will they be the last to challenge you.
Will you accept this challenge or will you break down and give up?
These people seek control and manipulation over others. They know no other way, they live off of others, without others they are nothing. They feel alive and powerful while dominating the will of others. There purpose is to exploit your weaknesses and manipulate you to get what they want. The ability to manipulate is a gift, it can be learned, but some people have a natural talent for it.
You cannot avoid them but will you allow them to use you or will you stand up for yourself?
They are a parasites that will suck everything they can from the host, including life itself. As soon as they destroy their host they’ll attach themselves to someone else and begin the process again. Like the Sirens of greek mythology they will lure you with their beauty and put you in a trance with their voice. Escape is futile until you can recognize them for what they really are.
Unlike their ancestors they will only damage, destroy, and kill you in a mental sense — unless you get one of the crazies then they might mimic the behavior of their legendary ancestors. In some circumstances it might be better to die because they will destroy your hopes, your dreams, and your future leaving you dead on the inside.
They do this by taking control of your reality and they only need to convince you that what they say is true. Once they have you, you are a both a puppet and a weapon, ready to do their bidding. Destroying friendships, running into debt, doing things you’d never have done alone, and ignoring things that are important.
Their power over you lies in your acceptance of their thoughts and ideas about you. About what you are, what you know, what you need to do, and who you are.
Deny them.
Deny them the pleasure of destroying you and let them move on to feast off weaker hearts and minds.
You have a choice.
These leeches will attach themselves to your life and everyone and everything in it. They will integrate themselves into every aspect of your life so that when you finally do pull them off they will pull the walls down on you. The more footing they get in your life the more damage they will cause on the way out.
They want you to believe that you are nothing without them, that you need them, that somehow they add to your life, and that somehow the loss of them would be unbearable. They’ll say you’ll always be a loser, you’ll have regrets, and you’ll be sorry. All they have to do is convince you that what they say is true so that you begin to doubt and question yourself.
But they are poisonous, they bring nothing but pain and suffering by way of compulsion.
The fact is you can’t regret, you can’t be sorry, and you can’t be anything they tell you that you’ll be unless you accept that you are. If you don’t accept what they say then they will lose all of their power and influence over you.
To deal with this situation they will entice and manipulate your friends and family to manipulate you on their behalf. This is why you have to be strong. They will find weak minds among your friends and family and trick them into trying to persuade you. You must stand your ground against them as well.
They have no control over you. There is nothing they can say or do that will benefit them. You will stand on your own, you will do what you want, when you want, and you will do so regardless of what you face. You cannot allow complaining, arguments, manipulation, put downs, or any other tactic to change your mind.
Stay strong and do your best to not even engage or take the bait for their arguments. They hope to draw you in and you can never beat an idiot at their own game. Eventually they’ll grow tired of not being able to control you and move on.
The best way to get rid of a parasite is to stop feeding it. Do not charge head first into battle hacking away and pulling them off by force, because I promise you it will hurt bad. The deeper they are attached the harder it will be to rid yourself of them, you must draw them out slowly.
As time goes by the things they say and do to hurt and control you will have less impact. Your resolve will strengthen. You will stop bending to their will. Eventually you’ll be able to ignore things you don’t want and only take what you do, reversing the entire relationship. When they protest, you can safely ignore it and continue to do what you were doing. The longer you resist, the more control you take back, and the less effect they can have on you.
By the end of this journey you’ll be able to laugh away insincerities and balk at the fakeness of these people. You will be able to watch them cry without feeling or sympathy. You’ll be able to listen to them call you the worst of things and carry on like nothing happened. You will be able to ignore their pleas to get them things, do things for them, or spend time with them, unless it serves you, and continue doing what you need to get done without concern.
You are strong, you are powerful, this is your life, and it will be as you say it is and no other way, unless you allow it. It will be as you think it is and nothing can stop you — resist.
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