Normalize leaving people in whatever weird reality they have chosen.  I love this.  As a people pleaser, it always felt like I needed to make room for whatever anyone else wanted to do even if I didn’t want to do it.  I’d listen as idea after idea of mine would be shut down and I’d bend over backwards to make someone else’s vision come to life.  I’d be told an idea was crazy or not possible only to wind up helping someone else achieve exactly what I had been talking about.  We can’t make people see things our way.  We can have the exact same experience and walk away with two entirely different stories.  It isn’t our job to convince them that our version is correct.  People will insist on seeing things as they believe them.  We are allowed to walk away from what people have created and the stories they have told.  We do not need to buy in to someone’s telling of history when we know otherwise. 

We don’t need to stay stuck in a reality that doesn’t match our own.  It’s ok to walk away from what doesn’t work.  In fact, the quicker we can recognize what doesn’t work and alter the path, the better.  We will be able to correct the route easier than if we allow ourselves to get stuck in a routine.  There is always conflict when it comes to the right thing to do pertaining to friends and family and choices.  Yes, those relationships are important and have a heavy influence on our path, but we can’t control them, and they can’t decide for us.  Even in those scenarios, we don’t need to stick with something that doesn’t fit.  Practice walking away.  Get comfortable with the idea that “No” is a complete sentence.  We need to normalize trusting our instincts again and following our own path.