Eddie Pinero

Well, if you treat your inner circle the same way security treats a vault at a bank, so many of those questions solve themselves.

Spend your time cultivating a circle that lights up your life, not constantly patching up holes left by people who let you down.

Let's see, I'd suggest a perspective shift, a very specific perspective shift.

See, we look at life through a personal lens.

We see the world as we are, and that makes sense.

It's logical.

But it's important to know that we're often incapable of seeing life through the eyes of others.

It's just impossible to feel their pain or understand where they've been before.

I've come to this recently as, you know, there are just people in my life that I'd swear to you are angels.

Like honest to God, angels walking amongst men.

They're so kind and loving and they're so giving and they radiate positivity and hope and beauty.

They just remind you of the good in life.

And so you assume if you were to turn them upside down and shake them, that's all that would come out of their pockets, right?

Good stuff.

But behind their eyes is often silent struggle and internal battles.

A desire to give others love that perhaps they didn't get somewhere along the way.

Look, I'm not saying this to be a downer or to turn an objectively good thing into a sob story.

I guess I'm just suggesting that you take care of the angels in your life.

Sometimes their wings are the heaviest.

I'd probably remind you of this.