Don’t Fill In The Blank

“Don’t make assumptions.”
~ Don Miguel Ruiz ~

This is The Third Agreement.

You don’t know.

You think you do. You fill in the silence with a story. The unanswered text becomes rejection. The look across the room becomes judgment. The quiet becomes something to worry about.

It’s not real. It’s a story you wrote without enough information.

Ask. Clarify. Say what you mean and mean what you say. Most of the suffering we carry comes from assumptions we never bothered to question.

Leave the blank blank.

The Dude 🐸

Thought for the Day
The story you’re telling yourself about someone else is usually more about you than them.

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