THE IMPORTANCE OF SETTING BOUNDARIES. Coming from personal experiences, I have always been struggling on keep people around me in-check and setting boundaries with people that I have relationship with, particularly with family and friends. I noticed that the reason I had a difficulties is on setting boundaries. I believe strongly that there 3 reason that made me struggle but the biggest reason is that I was afraid to insult someone in my social circle. It is strongly rooted in me since I was a child. "You should only say good things to your parents and friends" "Respect your life elder and friends " " Don't hurt other people's feeling", etc. At some point it was reasonable, because I was just a little innocent child. It was the right the to be taught to me. But as I grow older, I realized that it doesn't apply to me anymore, at least to some extent. Because when leave high school and enter early stage of adult hood, there are some "gaps" or transition phase that I had to go through in order to fully grasp on how I have to behave socially. It was such a stressful moment to go through back then. The peak of the process "figuring out" on how adulthood and social behavior happened back then in 2020. Got no friends to taught me this time exact topic, not even my own parents. I even went to therapy just to ask the therapist why some people reply their message so late even though they have their phone all the time in their hand. Basically I was just frustrated and upset about not figuring a lot of things out in social aspects of life. Okay, back to the boundaries setting story. In 2020, during the early stages of pandemic, I realized that me myself was such an ass kisser and doormat. I knew that because some people just treat me like trash and disrespect me at some point. From there, I start to break the pattern by asking myself this question, "Who am I?". Yes, only that. By asking myself that question, I started to figure things out about my personality, my likes and dislikes, Types of people I'd like to hangout with and my purpose. To be honest I'm stills challenging myself to dig deeper into myself with until today. Because it is a necessary step to make my myself better every single day. From there, I start to respect myself more. Start to respect and tolerate other people a little bit. And as I am writing this sentence in 14th January, 2023, I start to cut people off that doesn't have the same mentality or purpose as me. Because I knew back then to have shitty friends with zero self or at least lack of self respect for themselves and others. The worst part is Invited this friend to come to my hometown in south east Asia. Such a waste of time and energy. I definitely learned my lesson the hard way. Moral of this story is if you have to respect your self and setting boundaries. Otherwise you would not know when your boundaries is crossed and it can mess up your life quickly. Also be aware of yourself and other people personalities, it can help you to mentally distinguish between people you should or should not connect with.











