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The Evening Muse │Self-Awareness for Self-Empowerment│Life Lessons

If I had 99 Problems, Yours Won’t Be One

Carmellita
4 min readMar 14, 2022

Are you stressed with other people’s mess? Don’t crush your dreams under the weight of other people’s problems.

Stressed with Other People’s Mess” designed by Author (Carmellita) in Canva

Oftentimes, the stress we endure in life is a result of not minding our business. We aren’t using our time and space for working with our spirit to create the life we want to live. Instead, we’re busy creating in someone else’s space on our time.

We are crushing our dreams under the weight of other people’s problems. We engage in the frivolity of our energy because we aren’t respecting our time. In fact, we feel guilty if we have time for ourselves.

Guilt can be a trigger for some people. In the past, I was one of them and a few people in my life are aware of it.

But as we say in Louisiana, “Bébé, it’s a new day.”

What sparked this musing?

Today, I received a call from a relative of a relative (yeah in Louisiana your kinfolks’ kinfolk are your kinfolk too). He wanted me to call his 53-year-old niece because she was looking for a house in a town 25 minutes from where I live.

His niece wanted to inform me that she will be in the area next week. I live in Tennessee…

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Carmellita
Carmellita

Written by Carmellita

Writer, Poet, Storyteller, & Scholar. BA in Speech Communication. Joyful Creator. Blogger with an old-school flavor. A former ghostwriter who came back to life.

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