If you don't want to give in, you have the choice to say NO.
When someone asks me, why I did something I regret, my answer seems to be always, "I did not have a choice." All of us are absolutely unbelievably arrogant of our ‘choices'. There are times in our lives where we are given a choice & also not given one simultaneously. I guess I have always gone with the flow. Not attempting to mend the situation and understanding what others feel. I was striving to be more 'empathetic' like how cool people say it nowadays. I want to think I'm empathetic but how far do we stretch the notion? When I glance at my life, there are so many instances that pop up which are according to me, quite critical as I remember them vividly right now. Almost all of those scenarios had me making decisions that I didn't agree with initially, to be honest, I made them because someone wanted me to or to please others or to avoid hurting their feelings or ego. It took me many years, kilos, greyer hair to realize how wrong I was...
