When someone doesn't value you, don't argue, don't beg, do this instead.

1. Withdraw your energy. Where you're not valued, your presence is a gift.

2. Stay silent. No reaction is the loudest response.

3. Protect your peace. Your mind is not a battleground.

4. Redirect your focus. Pour into what grows you, not what drains you.

5. Set a clear boundary. Respect is non-negotiable.

6. level up quietly. Let distance speak for you.

7. Don't explain your worth. Those who get it don't need convincing.

8. Detach with dignity. Walking away is power, not weakness.

9. Reflect, not ruminate. Learn, don't dwell.

10. Value yourself more. Because no one rises by staying where they're diminished. You don't lose value when they fail to see it. You lose time staying where you're not seen.

UNCOMFORTABLE TRUTHS ABOUT PEOPLE:

1. Most kindness hides an agenda.
2. Love fades when respect disappears.
3. Confidence is often a mask for anxiety.
4. People crave validation more than truth.
5. Attention is the purest form of currency.
6. The one who talks less controls the frame.
7. Silence during conflict is psychological dominance.
8. Those who need control secretly fear abandonment.
9. People remember how you made them feel, not what you said.

Inside the control room of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, engineers monitored Reactor No. 4 on April 26, 1986, as a late-night safety test spiraled out of control. A series of critical design flaws and operator errors triggered a catastrophic explosion.

The blast released massive amounts of radioactive material, devastating nearby Pripyat and contaminating much of Europe. Today, the control room remains frozen in time—an eerie symbol of human miscalculation and the immense dangers of nuclear power when safety is compromised.

Creole languages can be categorized by their base language, such as French-based (e.g., Haitian Creole, Louisiana Creole), English-based (e.g., Jamaican Patois, Gullah), Portuguese-based (e.g., Papiamento, Cape Verdean Creole), and others that have a mixed or non-European base (e.g., Sango, Saramacca). They are found worldwide, with large concentrations in the Caribbean, Africa, and the Indian Ocean.
By base language

French-based: These languages developed from contact between French and other languages. Examples include Haitian Creole, Louisiana Creole, Mauritian Creole, and Dominican Creole French.

English-based: These are creoles where English is the primary base. Examples include Jamaican Patois, Guyanese Creole, Gullah (spoken in the southeastern U.S.), and Tok Pisin (in Papua New Guinea).

Portuguese-based: These languages have Portuguese as their main foundation. Papiamento (spoken in Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao) and Cape Verdean Creole are prominent examples.

Mixed or non-European based: Some creoles are based on contact between multiple European languages or primarily non-European languages.

Sango: Based on the Ngbandi language in the Central African Republic.

Saramacca: Based on English but heavily influenced by Portuguese, spoken in Suriname.

Papiamentu: Though based on Portuguese, it has significant Spanish and Dutch influence.

By external history

Plantation creoles: Developed on plantations, such as many French-based creoles in the Caribbean.

Fort creoles: Developed around forts, often involving trade and administration.

Maroon creoles: Developed by communities of formerly enslaved people who escaped to form their own settlements.

Creolized pidgins: Languages that evolved from pidgins into more complex, stable languages.

By region

Caribbean: Haitian Creole, Jamaican Patois, Papiamento (Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao), and various French-based creoles in the French West Indies are examples.

Africa: Nigerian Pidgin, Sango, and Kikongo-Kituba are spoken in various countries.

Indian Ocean: Mauritian Creole, Seychellois Creole, and Reunion Creole are spoken in this region.

Americas: Besides the Caribbean and Louisiana creoles, there are also Liberian Creole and Belizean Kriol.

Two black Children eating bread and flour gravy, Oklahoma, 1939.

Our ancestors survived with a little to nothing, their survival skills was pass down through generations, Depression” it don’t affect us as much as it does to people in some other races because we live it everyday 365 days a year,YEAR IN AND YEAR OUT.

Robert Downey Jr. photographed after being sentenced to 3 years in prison for possession of cocaine, heroin and a gun, 1999.

In 1999, actor Robert Downey Jr. appeared in court wearing an orange jumpsuit, his once-glamorous career in ruins. The photo captured the lowest point of a man once hailed as one of Hollywood’s most gifted talents. After a string of arrests for drug possession in the late 1990s, Downey was sentenced to three years in prison following multiple violations of his probation.

His descent mirrored a decade of personal chaos, addiction, relapses, and tabloid scrutiny that made him a cautionary tale about fame and self-destruction. But it wasn’t the end. After serving his sentence and struggling through recovery, Downey returned to acting in the early 2000s, rebuilding his reputation role by role.

Less than a decade after this photo, he would reemerge as Tony Stark in Iron Man (2008), launching the Marvel Cinematic Universe and one of the greatest career comebacks in Hollywood history.

Added Fact: In 2008, Time magazine named Robert Downey Jr. one of the 100 most influential people in the world — less than ten years after his release from prison.

DARK PSYCHOLOGY FACTS

1. The calmer you stay, the more they panic.
2. People don’t lie to protect you — they lie to control you.
3. Silence makes manipulators reveal themselves.
4. Guilt is the easiest emotion to exploit.
5. The one who listens more, controls the conversation.
6. When you stop reacting, they lose their power.
7. Not everyone argues to solve — some argue to dominate.
8. Flattery is often camouflage for intent
9. Confusion isn’t a mistake — it’s a manipulation tactic.

Narcissistic partners, parents, friends do the following.
• Attempt to move the goal posts so that what you do is never "enough" even though you are overqualified.
• Hypercriticize and nitpick to keep you feeling small so you shrink rather than owning your gifts and assets proudly.
• Attack you out of jealousy and envy, covertly trying to minimize your achievements, get you to hyper-focus on false shortcomings or manufacturing flaws that don't exist.
• Override your consent and force you into situations you explicitly stated you did not want. Manufacture chaos and drama to provoke your reactions and maintain a sense of control. Bring up the same conversations repeatedly where you've already overexplained yourself. Create twisted love
triangles or pit people against each other.

You gotta move in love. You have to forgive people who sometimes aren't even sorry. Master this and the blessings just overflow. Move in love.