I’m grateful I’m steadily able to find peace in leaving people on whatever path they choose and letting them keep whatever perspective they have, even if they think bad about me. via /r/gratitude

I used to over explain so much (and I still catch myself doing it sometimes) and stress so much out of fear of being misunderstood and out of the inner anxiety of living in an unsafe world. Now I realize that there's so much peace in just letting the world be as it is and letting people be as they are and letting people say and think whatever they want (or choose) about me.

I don't mind trying to make the world a better place. But I know now that this is best started with me and my own inner world. So much (though certainly not all) of what we perceive is projection from our own shadows, anyway.

I'm grateful for the clarity, growth, and peace that come with this realization.