In my opinion, the key to being a bitch is being respectful.
Now the way you apply this is you need to respect yourself and others. As long as you use common sense and let others know what is bothering/ not working/ inconvenient to you in a way that is not meant to hurt anyone simply communicating clearly and explaining (I understand that this might be controversial -you don't owe anyone explanations but it is a relationship that you care about and would like to keep putting the effort of communicating your reasons seems reasonable to me-
If this does not work, it is time to walk away. No drama or bad blood, keep a cold yet polite (it works especially if you are overly polite) distance.
This approach mitigates the fear of not people please because you are doing NOTHING wrong.
I’m on the wrong side of 33 and i can tell you with utmost certainty that your 20s is the most chaotic time of your life and it’s amazing that anyone actually gets anything done during them. If you’re a type a planning type personality however I would recommend:
- if you’re the sort of person who cares about diet and fitness, establish those routines in your 20s
- live where you wanna live. Don’t live somewhere you hate because you think you’ll have more fun later cos you won’t
- get a job that makes reliable money that you can tolerate and go back to if your dreams fall through. It doesn’t have to be a dream job it just has to pay the rent and not make you sad
- don't smoke cigarettes
- use sunscreen
- be as cringe as you want. People expect it from you anyway. They won’t have as much patience in your 30s.
Walking into a formal celebration and taking in everyone looking and smelling good. The smell always stays with me the most—cologne, soap, hair product, cigarettes, leather, shoe polish. Everyone so clean and proud and a little bit shy. So special.