Chapter (2) The Reality of Human Interactions and Self-Protection

 1. Once the rain is over, an umbrella becomes a burden to everyone. That is how loyalty ends when benefits stop. Some people will only love you as much as they can use you. Their loyalty ends when they do not need you.

2. The problem today is that people do not cherish good people; they try to use them.

3. People push you to the limit, but then, if you finally explode and fight back, you are the mean one.

4. People nowadays do not apologise for doing wrong; instead, they blame us for acting how we react.

5. They never want to discuss what triggered them. Just how you reacted.

6. They are not sorry for what they did; they are sorry because you found out.

7. People will always teach you until they face the same conditions you have faced.

8. When you treat people like they treat you, they get upset.

9. People hate when you show them how it feels to be treated like they treat you.

10. People do not understand the damage they do to someone until the same thing is done to them.

11. People only notice what we do for them once we stop doing them.

12. People who treat others as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.

13. Everyone you meet has a purpose. Some come into your life to test you, some to teach you, some to use you, and some to bring out the very best in you.

14. Everyone in life going to hurt you. You have to figure out which people are worth the pain.

15. Some people try to expose what is wrong with you because they cannot handle what is right with you.

16. When people know they did wrong, they avoid you.

17. Some people are not speaking to you because they owe you an apology.

18. Some people will never like you because your spirit irritates their demons.

19. People who have done something wrong to you will forever think your sayings are about them.

20. If someone has an issue with you and is telling everyone except you, they do not have a real issue with you. They enjoy the attention they get from talking about you.

21. People talk about you because no one would listen if they talked about themselves.

22. Some people do not want to be fixed because being broken habit gets them attention.

23. I do not care what anyone says; good people get tired of being good to ungrateful people.

24. Learn to be done with people—not mad, not bothered, just done. Protect your peace at all costs.