The only person you can change is yourself.

There are definitely many things in life that we cannot change and we have to accept them, but what we can do is to change our attitude and perspective regarding these things, which makes a big difference and is of great benefit to our mental health and emotional well-being.

Today I want to share with you this reflection that has taken me a long time to understand and apply in my life. Many times we try by all possible means that some people change their way of being, since we consider that their attitudes are not the most appropriate and that they could even hurt other people or hurt themselves. However, after many disappointments, I realized that the only person I have the power to change is myself.

By this I do not mean that I do not believe that people can change; what I believe is that everyone changes for very intimate and personal reasons and not because someone external wants them to. However, something we can do to avoid feeling frustrated is to change our attitude towards these people; to look at things from a totally different perspective taking into consideration that every human being lives a different process of maturity and personal growth.

Each of us is the author of our own biography, so it is absurd to try to write someone else's personal story. We can only respect the space and the process of each one, adopting an attitude of respect, tolerance, but above all of protection of our emotions. It is important to prevent emotionally unbalanced people from dragging us to their side of reality.

Understanding that we are not responsible for the maturation process of others, relieves us and keeps us away from frustration, disappointment and the pain of wanting someone to change their way of being so that we can then be happy, because everyone is responsible for their own happiness.

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