Pleaser

If we try to please everyone we end up pleasing no one and mostly displease ourselves. We can end up in a wasteland of dissatisfaction where our self-esteem is compromised. 

This lesson can take time because we begin life bowing to public expectation except that some of us never leave it. It takes effort to escape when we've been taught not to try. 

Protecting the self should include some flexibility because we want to be kind but not so much that our essence begins to be affected. When authenticity is compromised at the altar of expectation we will feel something is off. 

It becomes easier with age to recognize what is pomp versus what is essential aIthough I wish I had learned to make the distinction sooner.