People Pleasing

Daily writing prompt

Share a lesson you wish you had learned earlier in life.

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I wish I hadn’t cared so much about what people thought of me.

Always trying to do what was right in the eyes of others and always thinking about what they would think. I was a people pleaser, and it was undoubtedly uncomfortable. I would rewind every conversation, every interaction screening for a potential faux pas. Draining, draining, draining.

I ended up doubting myself on every occasion and expressing myself less and less.

Thankfully, life taught me that you can’t please everyone and you should protect yourself and your dear ones.

But if you ask me – “Would you have changed your past?”

It’s a hard no. Incoming, the the cliché word vomit: those lessons are what made me who I am today 🙂

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