Not Everything Needs Fixing

What we see in others is simply a reflection of ourselves. Sometimes the best fix for someone is to do nothing at all.

Rachael Annabelle
3 min readSep 3, 2020
Photo from Unsplash by Youssef Naddam

At different points in our lives, we cross paths with different characters who bring us laughter, joy, tears, and unique memories who mold us into the person that we are.

Not everyone you meet will be on the same page of their journey as you are, even if you hope for them to. Sometimes we find beauty in some characters, which reflects certain things about ourselves.

And being the self-serving humans we are, we try too hard to make things work in our favor, holding on to a relationship for our selfish reasons. We find it difficult to accept that people come and go — that many relationships are transient.

Often times, we enjoy someone’s company and fall in love with how they make us feel. We find beauty in the little things they do or don’t. When we are attracted to their physical appearance, ambition, humor, kindness, or anything in between, we start to crave more time together with the person.

But at the end of the day, your main consideration is how they make you feel around them.

It’s not about them being ‘different’ from the rest, but how they make you feel different about…

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Rachael Annabelle
Rachael Annabelle

Written by Rachael Annabelle

knottedbrains.com | googler. founder @gullie.io. photographer. creative consultant. pasta fanatic & occasional nerd.

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