For the past four months, there’s been something really disruptive in my life that wasn’t initiated by me but that admittedly, I should have dealt with in a better way.

Yesterday, I decided not to pay any further attention to the party that’s been causing this distraction. Because the matter was draining my energy and gobbling up my attention, while the party was making quite clear that they aren’t interested in establishing a dialogue.

They initially wouldn’t take no for an answer. I held my ground.

I woke up to a markedly increased level of peacefulness and clarity. Serenity.

I did the right thing.

I can breathe again.

People who are immensely intent on “helping” you, certainly if you did not ask for their help in the first place, often merely want to hamper you and hold you back, even if they aren’t even aware of it.

The funny coincidence is that I had actually intended to ask these people for assistance in January. I’ve changed my mind about that. I now see the chaos that they voluntarily started adding to my life as of some time last year as a sign that it is better not to engage with them at all.

They showed their hand.