Your emotions and other people's opinions aren't facts about who you are. Feeling low doesn't make you a lowlife, and words from people who weren't there when you formed your sense of self shouldn't define you. True resilience means managing yourself across good and bad days without letting feelings or labels control your identity.
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I know you are a spirit, but I want to break the news that you have emotions. And you see, these emotions, one of the things it seeks to do is to define your life by how you feel. That if you feel low, that means you are a lowlife person. Do you think your life is only good the days you feel good? Are you not the same regardless of how you feel? It's possible that because of certain events that has happened in your life, your emotion is in a bad state psychologically. The water has entered the boat and now you are sinking. The words that they were saying to you finally got into you, and now you're looking at yourself based on their estimations of you. How is it that those who were not there when God said the things he said to you are the one whose definitions you are accepting? We have emotions, but we are not our feelings. And feelings can lie. Some days you feel my life is a total waste. I don't even know what my life is about anymore. I just think I'm a very, very, very stupid person. I don't even know what is going on with my life right now. Everything is just the way it is. And then the next day you are the one who is on Instagram texting and saying, if you feel your life is like this, what's going on? You see, the issue is that most of the people who motivate you in certain areas do so because they know what it feels. Sometimes the person you should check on is the person who is telling you don't be down. He knows what being down looks like. How you learn to manage yourself in the good and bad days, that's what you have to Learn.