PP: There's Something About Growing Up...

Hello Lovelies

If you guys are wondering what 'PP' stands for, well it's stands for 'Personal Perspective'. And basically, when you see that at the beginning of the post, it means that I am going to ramble on about the things that I have been thinking about, such as the 'Embracing Your Appearance' Post.

So today, I want to talk about the overwhelming changes that happen in life. It's a weird topic, but I have been thinking about it a lot, and I wanted to share.

Some kids aspire to be great people with careers. Some, however, aspire to be great people when they are older but don't know what they want to be. I was one of those kids that really had no aspirations- I basically just lived my life as a kid. When I started growing, up I realised that there were some decisions that I had to make. What do I want to do in future? It is going to be stable? What do I have to study? And finding the answers to these questions can be quite tough. But I think that is the beauty of it. Growing up causes you to realise things for yourself, your future, your needs and wants. It plays such a massive part in life. 

Yes, I know, what I am saying might be seriously weird, because everyone grows up anyways. But you have to understand the way I'm looking at it. 

Recently, I have been making some life changing decisions. One of them was how I went about my group of friends. Friends are people that I can say I cherish the most, because as a younger kid, I had no friends- in fact I was kind of bullied. However, when I moved to London, I started a lot of friends- How? I don't know!, but I was grateful, and I would try my best to be the best for them. And obviously, you would want the feeling to be mutual. For all the years that I have been here, I have had the same group of friends. But now that I am slightly more grown up, I feel that as a child, I was so into the fact that I had friends, that I didn't care if they were the good ones or the bad ones. And now, I am realising that I have accepted a lot of the wrong people in my life, and I overlooked that quality because I called them my friend. 

So this is where the life changing decision comes in. Because I want the right, positive, supportive, caring, people around me, I have to cut of all the bad people that spread out negativity, because believe it or not, negativity is contagious. And I think this is a hard decision in my life, because I've had the same group for a long time, and distancing myslf would probably cause some drama, but I'm it's nothing I can't live through. 

And just because I'm 'cutting them out' doesn't mean that I wont care for them the same. There will just be limits. And I think, growing up made me realise things that I was too blind to see, and made me realise what was best for me. Now, I can count my closest friends on one hand. 

I think this was sort of therapeutic for me, but if there are people in your life you feel don't bring any joy, than you know what you have to do. Cut out the weeds, let the flower grow. 

- Stay Blessed

Leslie x

'I learned to give love and get love unconditionally. You just have to accept people for what they are, and I learned the greatest gift of all. The saddest thing in life is wasted talent, and the choices that you make will shape your life forever.'

- A Bronx Tale