Advice · daily prompt · Good advice · Saying I’m sorry · The best advice I ever received

The best piece of advice I’ve ever received came from one of my worst mistakes

What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever received?

“Stop saying you’re sorry for something you did not do. Do not take personal responsibility for something that has nothing to do with you or your actions. We say ‘I’m sorry,’ as a reflex response, a sentence filler, to a lot of situations that we did not create. It’s a passive response, a guilt giver. Remove it from your vernacular. Only say you’re sorry as a direct result of your own actions.”

daily prompt · Writing

Why I don’t Consider Myself a Leader

Do you see yourself as a leader?

Because I’m typically an outlier. An observer of people and everything around me. I’m not a follower either, because my stubborn streak doesn’t allow me to follow blindly without questioning first. I’m more of a thinker, a student of human nature and nature, and all its forms. If it makes sense to follow, I will. If it makes sense to be a leader in a given moment, I’ll do that. But inherently, I’m an observer. I try to reproduce with photography or the written word what I see, and how what I see makes me feel.