Sakeenah

*After I jumped, I learned, the pool was empty, the abyss was endless and my wings were real.

[fateema-keena]

It's my 14 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳

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Arches National park in Utah - Author: Dusk_Repose

[theambitiouswoman]

When you need nothing from anyone, that’s when you’re the most attractive and the most magnetic

When you don’t need anything, you don’t chase. When you don’t chase, you don’t overgive. And when you don’t overgive, you don’t abandon yourself. You become someone who chooses instead of someone waiting to be chosen. That’s what makes it magnetic

It’s not cold detachment. It’s being full. It’s knowing that you can want it, but you don’t need it. I enjoy you, but I don’t depend on you. I value connection, but I won’t trade myself for it type of thing

This is not defensive “I can do this alone” energy. It’s not hyper independence or walls. It’s being soft without dependency. Like you’re good either way. The difference is “I don’t need you, so don’t hurt me” The other says “I’m complete, so I get to choose you”

[theambitiouswoman]

Never give someone a second chance if they

Disrespected you

Cheated

Was abusive in any way

Lied constantly

Made empty promises

Ignored your needs

Took you for granted

Only wanted you when it was easy

Blamed you for their mistakes

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[amna-waseem]

A diamond isn't born—it survives pressure first. 💎

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[scorpionlafemme]

[theambitiouswoman]

A person with an ego tends to settle for less, because they feel like they have something to prove

Wouldn’t someone with a big ego want more or chase the best? But the underline always being “How dare they not want me” “How dare I not get that” and then crumble when it backfires. Ego doesn’t operate from worth, it operates from insecurity. And that’s why a person with an ego tends to settles for less

When you’re driven by ego, you’re not choosing from a place of alignment you’re choosing from a place of proving things. Your ego says “Look at me. Look what I can get. Look what I can keep.” It confuses attention for value & appearances for substance

That’s how you end up settling

Settling for relationships that don’t actually fulfill you, just because they look good from the outside

Settling for jobs that drain you, just so you can have the title

Settling for friendships that don’t support you, just to avoid being alone

Ego is loud, but it’s fragile. It constantly needs to be fed by validation, which means you’ll cling to what looks impressive even if it’s hollow

A person who knows their worth doesn’t have anything to prove. They don’t need to settle, because their choices aren’t about appearance or validation, they’re about truth. Worth chooses alignment. Ego chooses image

So yes, people with big egos often settle for less. Not because they don’t want more, but because they mistake proof for peace. And it can feel like peace when you’re being validated, admired, or winning the appearance game. But peace only comes from choosing what’s real

[resqectable]

“You have to meet people where they are, and sometimes you have to leave them there.”

— Iyanla Vanzant

[mournfulroses]

Louise Glück, from a poem titled "Blue Rotunda," featured in Averno: Poems, originally published in 2006

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