Margo's Collection

12/11/2024

My side of the story doesn't matter anymore. Life happened, it hurt, I healed, but most importantly I learned who deserves a seat at my table and who will never sit at it again.
The chapters of my past are closed, the ink has dried, and the story has been written. I've turned the page, and a new chapter has begun. One where I'm the author, the protagonist, and the hero.

I used to think that my side of the story needed to be heard, that I needed to justify, explain, and defend myself. But I've come to realize that my worth, my value, and my truth aren't defined by anyone else's opinions or perspectives.

The pain I endured taught me valuable lessons, lessons that I'll carry with me for the rest of my life. It taught me to be resilient, to be strong, and to be brave. It taught me to let go of the toxic, the negative, and the harmful.

I've learned to surround myself with people who uplift me, who support me, and who love me for who I am. I've learned to set boundaries, to prioritize my own needs, and to cherish my own company.

Those who hurt me, who betrayed me, and who tried to break me will never sit at my table again. They'll never be invited into my life, my heart, or my home. I've taken back control, and I've reclaimed my power.

My table is reserved for those who deserve a seat, those who have earned my trust, my love, and my respect. It's reserved for those who will laugh with me, cry with me, and build with me.

So, my side of the story doesn't matter anymore. What matters is the present, the future, and the life I'm building. A life where I'm the star, the director, and the writer. A life where I'm free, I'm happy, and I'm me.

08/11/2024

Are you familiar with the “Let Them” theory?

I’ll tell you the more I grow the more I am okay with accepting the “Let Them” in my own life and relationships. Even family can mistreat and disrespect you.

This is something that took me a very long time to learn. I used to tolerate a lot because I didn't want to lose people. I learned the hard way if they were really my people they would never treat me like that. Don't make the mistake of being so understanding and forgiving that you overlook the fact that you're being repeatedly disrespected.

Let them be upset.
Let them judge you.
Let them misunderstand you.
Let them gossip about you,
Let them ignore you.
Let them be "right."
Let them doubt you.
Let them not like you.
Let them not speak to you.
Let them run your name in the ground.
Let them make you out to be the villain.
Whatever it is that people want to say about you, let them!
Kindly step aside and LET THEM.

The hard truth is they know how much they are hurting you. They just simply don't care. They did it knowing it could cause them to lose you. They did it anyway. People that love you care about how they make you feel.
The end.
Let them go.

There will be people that would rather lose you than be honest about what they've done to you. Let them go.

The lack of respect was the closure. The lack of apology was the closure. The lack of care was the closure. The lack of acountability was the closure. The lack of honestly was the closure. Let them go.

Make the decision to no longer sit at tables where you might be the topic when you get up. Let them go.

You can still be kind. You can even still love them deeply. But do it from the distance they created in their words and actions. Access to you is a privilege they have proven they can’t be trusted with. Let them go.

You don’t need to tell your side of the story. God already knows. Let God fight the battle for you. Let them go.

It’s taken me a long time to get here. Sleepless nights, countless tears, managing a range of emotions filled with anger, disappointment, confusion and deep hurt. Lots of self reflection, self preservation, deep prayer and seeking wisdom from those much wiser than me.

If you are struggling with this please know you are not alone. We will never understand why hurt people hurt people. But we can do the hard work to grow ourselves. Because healed people do in fact heal people.

Don’t you dare let them steal your joy.
Don’t you dare let them steal your light.
Don’t you dare let them steal your peace.
You are in control of that.

Hold tight to what you can control and release your grip on what you can’t control.

Let them go.

Credit goes to the original author. Tattoo image goes to the original owner.

03/11/2024

04/07/2024

THINGS THAT CAUSE REGRET AT OLD AGE

When younger, we make various choice's without the future in mind. Sometimes those choices bite us in our mid-life. These are some of the things one might regret when they're older.

1. Marrying the wrong person

When you're young, check your motives for marrying. Don't marry to copy your peers, or for social standing or out of pressure. Marry for love and companionship, marry the right person, marry your best friend. For if you marry the wrong person or for the wrong reasons, you will have to put up with that person the rest of your life. Things might get worse between you two; then depression, physical abuse, affairs, pain, shame, court cases, bitterness will define your mid-life years all because you chose the wrong one. Things will get worse when children are involved. Make the right choice of a spouse when you are young.

2. The opportunities you did not seize

When you are younger many doors will open, you will get many chances. Many young people let these opportunities go because of fear, laziness, or pride; yet well younger and with more energy is the best time to start a venture and a name for yourself. Some think the opportunities are too big for them. Take advantage of them or one day when you're older you will want to go back and grab those missed chances.

3. The bridges you burned

When we are younger, we care little for relationships, what most think about is getting money and moving up the ladder of success at all cost. Many use and trample on people to progress, they take relationships for granted, messing up bonds, sleeping with people for personal gain. But these bad actions will catch up with you ahead. When you will realize how empty life is without love and friends. When you will have success but no one around you or no one to trust you.

4.The child you aborted

You are a young lady, you get pregnant and you are scared. You take the aborting option quickly thinking of that moment then. But when you are much older, you will look back and wish you kept that baby. When you will be rich and successful you will wish that child you gave up on would be around to enjoy the fruits of your hard work. Being a single mother doesn't mean you can't make it in life or you can't find a man in future.

5. The child you rejected

Young man, you impregnated a woman, she told you she's pregnant with your child. You rejected her and the baby and ran. But years later when you're 50 something, you will wish you were responsible, you will wish you manned up and became a father to that child. You will see that child excel and become an adult but will have no claim to that grown child who you rejected from the beginning. You will regret being a Dead Beat Dad by choice

6. The marriage you destroyed

So you get married to your good fiance; the first months in marriage were good but shortly after, with your money and charm, you started having affairs. You became unfaithful. Your spouse begged you to stop, your children started hurting, your marriage was collapsing. One day when you are older, it will hit you how foolish you were to destroy the good marriage you had began to build for mere temporary thrills in affairs that did you no good. You will realize the damage you caused to your children and spouse.

7. The God you disowned

When you are much older you become wiser, God becomes more real as you see life in a more meaningful way. But don't wait to get older to start enjoying a relationship with God. Know God when you are young, build your future with God. Don't be a young rebel who runs back to God when age catches up.

8. The body you messed up

You have only one body to live with all your life. The ci******es, the alcohol you are abusing, the drugs you are taking, the unhealthy food you're consuming; all that will destroy you slowly. When you are 50 and lifestyle diseases catch up with you, you will wish you took care of your body when younger, that you exercised more; but now the damage is done.

9. The time you wasted

The time you are wasting when younger in worry, wrong relationships, laziness, being a couch potato, giving excuses and pursuing meaningless things; you will never get it back.

10. The dreams and talents you shelved

Are you talented when young; are there things you love to do and you are good at them? Nurture those talents, exploit them, don't give up even if you encounter set backs, don't give up on your dreams. If you give up, when you're older you will look at your peers who stuck to what they love and made it and think to yourself, "That could have been me". Pursue a career, study a course you love. Don't waste years of your life in a field that doesn't fulfill you.

11 The name you defamed

When you are older, a legacy is very important, the value of your name is crucial. You will ask yourself what is your reputation, what are you leaving behind? Your legacy is a sum total of your actions since youthful days. We write our biography by how we live life everyday. When you look back your path and you see the mud you threw at your own name, the shame you attracted and the little value you have added to the world; you will regret.

12. The wealth you threw away

Are you riding on good money during your productive years? Earning good money? Don't throw away that money in clubs, reckless living and wasteful shopping. Invest with that money, widen your revenue stream, make that money work for you and keep it safe to take care of you in your older years. Leave an inheritance for your loved ones so that you will never say "I wish I knew better"

13. The good love that got away

Is there that great person in your life loving you good? Don't push that person away, or else that person will walk out your life and you will never ever find someone that incredible and who connects with you all your life. It will torment you to grow older with thoughts of "What if I was still with that person?"

14 The parents you despised

When younger, it is easy to show contempt to your parents; what do your parent's know? They are old-fashioned, shady and small -minded. But your parents are still your parents whether you agree with them or not, whatever their style. Don't let your parent die or age separated from you, reconcile and make up. When you get older, you will realize why your parents wanted to be close to you. The older you get, the more you see the value.
Thanks for reading

To realize
The value of a sister or brother
Ask someone
Who doesn't have one.

To realize
The value of ten years:
Ask a newly
Divorced couple.

To realize
The value of four years:
Ask a graduate.

To realize
The value of one year:
Ask a student who
Has failed a final exam.

To realize
The value of nine months:
Ask a mother who gave birth to a stillborn.

To realize
The value of one month:
Ask a mother
Who has given birth to
A premature baby.

To realize
The value of one week:
Ask an editor of a weekly newspaper.

To realize
The value of one minute:
Ask a person
Who has missed the train, bus or plane.

To realize
The value of one second:
Ask a person
Who has survived an accident.

Time waits for no one.

Treasure every moment you have.

Remain blessed🙏❤️

29/06/2024

Okay lang kahit di ka pa okay. Kahit ramdam mong di ka buo ngayong taon.
Hayaan mo ang oras na hilumin ka.
Hayaan mong maramdaman ang sakit dahil hindi naman talaga madali ang proseso ng paglimot, pag-usad at paglaya.

Huwag kang makikinig o maniniwala sa sinasabi nila na dapat hindi na dapat siya, na dapat okay ka na, na dapat masaya ka. Dahil hindi yun basta-bastang nangyayari, dinadaan ang lahat sa proseso para kapag dumating ang araw na okay ka na, ay okay ka na talaga.

Hayaan mong hilumin ka ng panahon habang inuunti-unti mo ang iyong pagbangon. Hindi man agad ang iyong pag-ahon, asahan mong may naghihintay sa iyo na liwanag sa bawat alon.
Makakaya mo rin.
Makakalaya ka rin.

14/06/2024

KAILAN PA BA MAREREALIZE NG PARTNER MO KUNG GAANO KA KAHALAGA ?

baka marerealize lang ng tao ang halaga mo kung hindi ka na maghahabol sa kanya, kung di mo na siya bibigyan ng tamang atensyon, oras, at di mo na iiyakan

minsan kailangan mong kumilos na parang wala kang pakialam , iniisip kasi niya na hindi ka mapapagod dahil mahal na mahal mo siya, totoo pag mahal mo hindi ka napapagod don pero yung sakit na pinaparamdam nila satin ang nagpapahina sa atin

kung sino man ang nagbabasa nito, alam mo sa sarili mo kung gaano ka karapatdapat, kaya itigil mo na ang pagtutok sa taong hindi karapatdapat sa iyo

kung talagang mahal ka, hindi mo kailangang makiusap para sa kanilang oras. Kasi kung talagang gusto ka nila, buong puso nilang ibibigay kaya please, know your self worth.

04/06/2024

I just wanted to remind you that you are doing the best you can, and that is more than enough. It's easy to be hard on ourselves and feel like we should be doing more, but it's important to recognize the effort and dedication you are already putting in.

Remember to be kind to yourself and acknowledge the progress you've made. Every step, no matter how small, is significant and worth celebrating.

Take care and keep up the great work.

05/05/2024

"Dapat partners kayo sa lahat ng bagay"

Partners kayo kaya dapat magkakampi kayo sa lahat ng bagay
Masaya man yan, malungkot man yan
Maliwanag man o madilim ang sitwasyon

Partners kayo kaya dapat magsabihan kayo ng problema
Hindi yung open sa iba pero sa sariling asawa hindi makapagsabi ng dinadala

Partners kayo kaya dapat kapag nagdesisyon ka, konsultahin mo siya
Hindi yung nagdedesisyon kang mag-isa

Partners kayo kaya dapat nagtutulungan kayo
Mahirap ang magpatakbo ng pamilya pero kakayanin niyo kung magtutulungan kayong dalawa

Partners kayo kaya dapat nagsasaluhan kayo
Hindi yung naghihilaan kayo pababa
O kaya naman e lalo mong pinapahina ang loob niya

Partners kayo kaya dapat walang ibang taong mainvolve
Hindi yung nagkaproblema lang ng konti, magpapacomfort ka na sa iba

Partners kayo kaya dapat magtiwala ka at mapagkakatiwalaan ka
Hindi yung konting bagay lang e ililihim mo pa
Paano pa kaya kapag sa malaking bagay na?

Partners kayo kaya dapat ang meron ikaw lang at ako
Kung magkaka-third party man dapat si Lord lang yun, walang iba

Partners kayo kaya dapat stick with each other
Never ever let others destroy what you've built together

24/04/2024

SACRIFICE
before
SUCCESS

27/03/2024

Everybody can say things against you or even judge you!
But only few can tell and defend you when you are not around!

20/02/2024

DEAR MARRIED or W/PARTNER MEN,

åNobody will tell you this but I will;
If you want to go far in life, love your wife, take good care of her, make her happy and her prayers will open doors for you.

åRemember when things go down healthwise or financially for you, only your wife will feed you and will be there for you. Most of your friends and side chicks will abandon you!

åAnd lastly, that lady you think is better than your wife, it's because she is not living with you. Bro, invest in your woman!
🙏
Let's share to educate other

04/02/2024

Hi Guys.. I'm back!...
Alam ko kakaunti lang kayo pero salamat at napapansin nyo ang bawat tetra na isinusulat ko..

23/01/2024

Makabagong Araw🌴

15/01/2024

Tears and fears and feeling proud
To say, "I love you" right out loud
Dreams and schemes and circus crowds
I've looked at life that way

15/01/2024

Na mimis kona ang sahod😮‍💨

10/01/2024

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