Greetings, dear and Linda Jayne
Actually, there is a time when we need to with this related question to allow people to interfere in our lives. I'm not saying just interfere in the sense of entering without permission in our space, but of tecermos our behavior considering please others. This creates a certain "prison" that prevents us from living and make our own decisions, Yes, our course will always be dictated by others.
For that, we need to have self knowledge. I don't know you've read or watched the book Alice in Wonderland. In it, there is a dialogue between Alice and a character that I don't know the name. Alice asks which path to take. There the character question: where do you want to go. Then she, whatever. He: So whatever the path to choose ... that is, we need to have self-knowledge to understand where we want to be and how to achieve that goal.
Thank you for your post and good night!!
@julisavio I love the Alice in wonderland reference!! What wonderful input!! Thank you - comments like these are always wonderful!! 😎