What happens when you don’t learn how to regulate your emotions

Missed opportunities

Melanie Wijeratna
Blue Star Ink

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To those who love another, validate them. Tell them you love them. Tell them they look nice today. That they are beautiful. Handsome. Smart. Capable. Tell them you are proud of them. Tell them they worked really hard on that XYZ. Do this every single day. Every single time you see them. So that they don’t go looking for that validation elsewhere. And end up finding it, in the arms, and the eyes, and the lying mouths of the jealous, and seething. In the ones who don’t care, whether your loved one flourishes, of fails. Who likely, hopes for the latter.

When you don’t learn how to regulate your emotions, here’s what happens.

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Influence and followers

You listen to the person beside you. Who’s egging you on. Encouraging drama. Sitting with you. Bored. One evening. Gossiping about how terrible everyone is, with you. It’s so easy to be with them. They agree with everything you say. Deeply jealous of you, for your beauty that you’re unaware of. A jealousy you are also, unfortunately, unaware of. You listen to them, because they give you what you need. The validation you so deeply crave. They flatter you. They say yes. They agree. They tell you to your face, how amazing and smart and good you are. How beautiful you are

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Melanie Wijeratna
Blue Star Ink

I am a Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) and a PROSCI-certified People Change Manager. I’m also an ultra-runner and have lived and worked all over.