I'm done with them....

I'm done. I'm done with being doubted, with people second guessing my genuine good nature, with being ignored until needed, with everyone looking at the distant past to judge me rather than who I am now and my recent past. I am done taking flack for everything and not standing up for myself or for who I am. So many people tell me that the past speaks for itself, that I am nothing more than the sum of my experience, they are right. However, they are forgetting that it goes both ways. The way you treated me in the past, the way you continue to treat me, that is the sum of who you are in my mind. That is how you shall be treated from now on. I give everyone the benefit of the doubt, I give everyone so many chances, way more than they ever give me. That stops today. No more chances, no more selfless acts of kindness for people that put me down and never acknowledge what I've done, or how far I've come. I am not a charity, nor am I a charity case. No my life isn't perfect, and yes I'm still getting my things together, but that doesn't mean you get to treat my like a second class citizen. If I don't have any priority in your life, then why do you get to have it in mine. Why in the world do I still care so much about how other people view me when they obviously don't care about my opinion on anything.