Choose Yourself

It’s the only way to have the life you want

Photo by Jackson David on Unsplash

I’m what most people would call a people pleaser. I’ve made a habit of changing myself to appease the people around me.

I’ve made myself smaller, less silly, less exuberant - so no one can say that I’m “too much”.

I’ve held back my opinions or pretended I didn’t have any, so I didn’t rock the boat and didn’t make anyone uncomfortable, or god forbid, actually outright disagree with someone.

I’ve spent endless amounts of time making sure that everyone around me was comfortable.

All I really ended up doing in the process was create a version of myself that I didn’t really like and most of the time didn’t recognize.

I stopped doing all of this a year ago.

This is the story of how I chose myself and completely changed my life in one year.