D E S I G N S & W R I T I N G S
B Y K E A Y N I G E L
"Some friends just aren't real."
Let Go Of The Friends Who Don’t Make You A Better Person
"Today, decide for yourself which people are valuable assets worth a continued investment and which you should cut from your life. Understand that it’s not your responsibility to make everyone who comes into your life remain a part of your life, and it is definitely not your obligation to try and keep everyone happy. Stop being a people-pleaser, learn to say 'no,' and once you start to do it, you will begin to see who the leeches in your life are and who still sticks around because they truly care about you."
9 Traits Of A Toxic Friend
"It’s not spring yet, but it’s never too early to do some spring cleaning of the people you hang out with. The thing is, every friendship you have is inevitably going to affect you, and change you, in a good way or in a not-so-good-way. And everyone of us is guilty of having a couple of unhealthy friendships with people who aren’t really doing us much good — people who, instead of making us happier and better beings, are doing the reverse. I call these people, 'toxic friends.'”
15 Reasons Why Your Haters Hate You
"They see life as some kind of competition — who’s more popular, who’s richer, who has more friends, who has more dates, who has the better job, yadda yadda — and they want to win. Their eagerness to do better than you is not based on their zeal towards life, but stems from their fear of losing to you and being seen as failure in their own eyes. They sort of made you their goal, and the further the distance between you and them, the more they hate. That’s why your haters never want to hear that you are doing well in anything."
Losing A Friend, Losing A Lover, And Losing You
"After the break-up, I had subsequently lost my other friends too. It was as though all the while my relationship with my ex was all that had glued everything together. Now that I lost my connection with him, the relationships I had with the other people who were part of our support system disconnected too."