gos-sip (noun): casual or unconstrained conversation or reports about other people, typically involving details that are not confirmed as being true.

Gossip: we all know what it is and we most likely all spread it or have spread it before. I used to be caught up in all the drama and fake people from high school, but I'm so over that now. It took a lot of time of time to realize who these negative influences were in my life because I didn't want to address them. I'm the master at sweeping my feelings under the rug to clean another day, but I finally decided that it was time to cut the shit.

I'm just so sick and tired of the cattiness and pettiness of other people who love nothing more than to bring others down and talk badly about them behind their back. My entire life, I've done my best to be nice to people and to be as real as I can. I pride myself on that. What I don't understand is how some people still enjoy talking about the things that make me different as if it's a bad thing. Am I perfect? Hell no. Do I think that I'm a good person despite my flaws? Hell yes. I used to care so much about being liked by other people and to a certain extent, I still do. But I've realized that some people are still going to find things they don't like about you and talk behind your back to other people. I'm sorry, but I don't need those people in my life. Now that I've grown up a little and have met some really good friends and maintained some of those good relationships from home, those other people just aren't worth my time. I'm done living in this high school mentality where all everyone cares about is what the people we went to school with are up to. WHO CARES? Seriously...it doesn't matter. We're in college now, we're adults. It's about time we started to act like them.

My message to any of you who may be struggling with these negative and toxic people, know that everything you do in life is a choice. You chose your friends. You chose the person you want to be. Why waste this one life, you're blessed with on Earth, dealing with those people who bring you down? Take it from a girl who understands what it's like, nothing is worth feeling this way. I encourage you to stand up for what you know to be true, be yourself regardless if that means people will judge you for it, and find comfort in those who are there for you.