How many times has someone (an employer, sister, father, spouse) said to you, “Could you be a little more cheerful with the customers” or “I wish you were a little neater around the house?” Many times in the course of our lives, all sorts of people will ask us to be something we are not. Some will be polite about it and some will not.
When I was younger, I spent a lot of time and effort (before and after I got over the rebellious teen years, that is) trying to be everything everyone wanted me to be. Well, I was never going to be tall, blond and beautiful and luckily no one every required that of me, but there were plenty of other requirements that I just wasn’t meeting naturally.
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