Overextending Yourself for Others

Bleeding from the inside out.

Trying so hard to pretend that I am ok even though I know that I'm not.

My body aches.

My heart keeps hurting.

Trying to keep it all together but I keep falling apart.

I have been down this road one too many times and every time it just gets worst and worst. It is ripping me apart but I can't show anyone how I am really feeling. People come and go and in the end they get all they want from me and never look back to see if I am ok.

They take and take.

Use me and mistreat me.

Being kind and caring too much has destroyed me. Everyone who I came across in my life just entered and treated me the same way. No one has ever looked out for me or even tried to be there for me. Instead everyone looks to me to be there. They always want to be able to count on me but the second that I can't do anything for them then they talk about me and treat me like I am the worst person in the world. They find that me not being able to be there for them is enough reason to hate me and destroy my name, but yet they can never remember all the times that was there for them. It is like no matter what you do it is never enough; it is just never good enough. People will find a way to take the good you do and turn it around and destroy you.

They want you to give and give without ever saying no. They want you to be there for them at the drop of a dime but yet they don't want to do the same for you.

People will love you today and hate you by tomorrow.

If you allow them they will rip you apart and drag you through the dirt.

No matter how many times they tell you not to worry they will have you covered next time. Guess what next time never comes.

They play on your good heart. They use and abuse it.

Sad to say but it is true. People will never put out everything for you as you would do for them.

When you have a good heart it is so easy to be hurt because it is very rare that you find people who will be there for you and you always have to learn that the hard way.

You run to rescue everyone but when you need someone to rescue you there is no one to be found. No one to call because no one will answer. However, when they needed someone to talk to they knew that you would answer no matter the time of day.

When they needed a shoulder to cry on; yours was always there but when the tables turn and you need a shoulder to cry on. Then you see how no one is there for you and you have to spend nights home alone crying in the dark where no one can hear you.

Everyone wants someone to depend on and have even one person they know that they can trust.

Everyone wants to know they can have someone to always be there for them but in all honesty that is never the case.

The people who have the kindest hearts tend to stretch themselves so wide. While other people are selfish and only care about themselves.

There needs to be a role change. It is time for the kind hearted people to be a little selfish for once and start to look out for themselves. Stop putting all your energy into other people. Always filling them up when they become empty.

It is time to pour into yourself and take care of your needs first.

I am not telling you to stop caring or to stop being there for people. All I am saying is that it is time to put yourself first. Make sure you're ok first before you extend yourself to others.

You can't pour into others when you are empty.

Take time for you.

Be a little SELFISH sometimes.

If you allow people to continue to take everything from you then that is exactly what they will do. Take and take until you're completely dried out. It's ok to say NO! It's my time now.

It's ok to be just as little SELFISH today.