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No Award Will Make Me Proud
Carry those buckets of water to your 4-h sheep.
I don’t care how heavy they are.
I also don’t care that you wanted to show pigs and not sheep.
Third place is not good enough.
Your best is not good enough.
Try harder, practice more.
All the awards you win and
I’ll still never say I’m proud of you.
Nor will I dare say I love you.
I’ll teach you how to hang out with the guys,
Poach deer, drink like a fish and
out work the best of men.
But I’ll never allow you to be the
Lady you were meant to be.
Not as long as I’m in your life.
After cutting me out of your life
you’ll finally be able to learn all the ways
of a true lady with the help of
your wonderful, patient husband
Whom I hate, because he was your
ticket to a mentally healthy life style.
Thru out your life you will have
Ultimately abandoned and lost
yourself with chronic people pleasing.
You will lie about your likes, dislikes,
wear makeup that you hate, buy the same
clothes “your friends” wear and chronically
beg for others opinions so you can please others.
Always reading their behaviors and moods
to see if you pleased them well.
You will eventually get to the point where
you realize you don’t know who you are anymore.
You will try all the eggs like Julia Roberts in Runaway Bride
And realize you like them scrambled with katchup
Not fried over easy like I taught you.
This will be the true beginning of your journey
to self discovery and overcoming people pleasing.
You will become so addicted to learning who you truly are
that you’ll never want to please anyone for the sake of losing
your identity again. Keep on trucking.
Written by a recovering people pleaser~
Gretchen Marie Walters
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