Zerky

Do you make a decision to stand up for yourself and be like, no more?

No more.

I'm not dealing with this anymore.

I got my own life to live.

I got my own things that interest me.

It's like, how much can you take until you realize that doesn't help you either?

I've spent a long time.

in my own life, trying to be the therapist for other people and not in a sense of hearing people out, giving feedback when they ask, but instead trying to fix whatever they're going through and trying to look at things from a lens of my own.

But that's not how life works.

At least in my opinion, everyone has their own journey.

Everyone has their own set of problems, quirks that make them very unique.

And I'm very thankful for it, but also it makes it really complicated to give any kind of advice and actually adhere to it and follow it.

And a lot of the advice that you can hear about your own life, right, like go to sleep on time, be active, have a good friend group, have good people around you, that's all stuff that you will hear from people time and time again like a broken record.

But you won't internalize it until you struggle through it and you make a decision to make a change.

Instead, what I think happens to a lot of us is we become the dealer for other people.

Other people become addicted on our support.

And then it makes you feel like your entire existence is just to help other people.

But you're not even helping.

You're just there.

And not there as just like, I'm here for you.