A most prolific and relatable tweet crossed my Twitter mentions.

@OpheliaMaddsen tweeted:

"Too many people want those around them to fit, neatly, into boxes. They form their whole identity around it. Anything outside of that, they treat like a quantum singularity, impossible to properly observe or comprehend."

Has anyone ever said to you, "You've changed!"

That's a good thing...for you...bad thing for them (if they're complaining).

A great response to that could be, "I didn't make all this change not to change."

Growing is change. If you're not changing then you're not growing.

Some of us grow (change) so rapidly that our friends, who have stagnated over the years, cannot recognize us.

Sometimes this exposes their own insecurity. You're showing them that they aren't living up to their potential. Guilt sets in.

They're mad because you haven't been happily complacent like them.

The nerve of you to have ambition!

If you have occurrences like this with your "friends", start to slowly distance yourself. They will become your most vicious enemy and their close proximity to you makes them extremely dangerous.

Since these people are expressing feminine (emotional) energy, you'll have to deal with them like you deal with women.

And I wrote the rules for that.

Thank me later.

bryansharpe.co/masculinity

Hotep.