Latest / Moming and Me: The Podcast / Your First Response Tells on You
Transcript
- Najah: Pay attention to people who can never be happy for you. Every time you come to them with good news, the first thing out their mouth ain't congratulations. But they got hella questions though. Now why are you picking apart something I came to you excited about? Or what about every time you got good news? All of a sudden they got some good news too. yeah, me too. Well, I got something going on too. That's crazy because I was just about to tell you. Damn, can I have a moment? Everything don't need to turn into a competition. Sometimes somebody you care about should be able to walk in the room with good news and you just celebrate them. Now I'm not talking about somebody relating to you every now and then. I'm talking about a pattern. Every time I'm happy, you either gotta pick it apart, minimize it, or find a way to bring the attention back to you. And baby, you are not happy for me. But eventually your secret enemy ain't gonna be a secret no more. They done told on themselves. And I'll see you now. You're not concerned. You're not just asking questions. You're jealous. You don't like seeing me win. And you damn sure don't like seeing me happy. And once I see that in you, I can't unsee it. And listen, usually These be the same people constantly complaining about everything wrong in their own life. So of course you can't celebrate mine. You ain't even learned how to find joy in yours. And people like that need to be left right where they are. Go find you're happy. Go fix what you don't like about yo life. Go build something you can be proud of. But until then. Stay the hell away from mine. And hey, you gonna learn now or later. that you don't get to step on everybody else's happiness. Just because you haven't figured out how to create your own.