Rumors

 

Have you ever heard a rumor about someone? 

Have you ever heard a rumor about yourself?

Has your life ever been ruined because of rumors?

Or should I say, has your life ever been ruined because people were happy to believe the rumors they heard?

I’ve met a lot of people in my life, it has been an eventful 38 years;

not always the ways that I would want it to be eventful, but I got pretty good at adjusting to what life threw at me-or more accurately, what other people did.

Before I was crippled, it would’ve never occurred to me that people would  believe so many lies about me.

I was too busy living my life. 

I enjoyed my quaint little life.

I had my jobs, my dog; I hiked, I cooked food, I did art, I danced, I sang and I believed that at the right time, I would have love in my life.

I knew step-by-step, exactly what I wanted for my life in each phase of my life.

I knew what I was working towards, I knew what the middle was going to look like, and I had a plan for the end.

I didn’t plan on love coming at a certain time, and I was always willing to allow new things to enter into my life.

One thing looking back upon, that I made a huge mistake in doing, was letting the wrong friends and partners into my life.

Some completely ruined my life, with their rumors and their lies, and some with their abuse.

Whenever I moved on from someone in my life, whether it be a friend or a partner, I always wished them the best, and moved forward, focusing on what it was that I would have in my life.

It never occurred to me that people were scared I would speak the truth about them, so instead, they decided to spread rumors about me.

It was an even  worse. Surprise how many people believed these awful things.

To say it ruined my life is an understatement.

What I’ve dealt with in this time,

I wouldn’t have wished upon anyone; but that was before now.

I’m mean now, just like most of you, finally.

These lies and rumors put me in a lot of danger during this time period.

As a crippled woman, without a support system, without an income, and with all these lies being believed about me,

I was just placed in more danger than any one of you would want to be put in ever, in your life.

That evidently, was actually the point and purpose of some of these rumors, that people spread.

The more that I discovered about the people involved in these lies, the more that I realized it was incredibly intentional.

Make sure when you hear a rumor, you think long and hard about it before you spread it around.

Rumors.

Have you heard one?

Rebuilding a life crippled is hard enough-

Rebuilding a reputation that was ruined by lies-is irreparable.

A wise person once said,

“Be careful who you mess with in this world, because you don’t know who protects them in the spiritual”