#200
Have you ever dimmed your light to make someone else comfortable?
Have you ever gone against your intuition just to keep the peace?
Have you ever given up on a dream because somebody persuaded you that you can’t do it?
There are many ways that you can betray yourself in the pursuit of creating harmonious relationships with others. The most common one is putting other people’s happiness before yours.
Betraying yourself is a lot like betraying others – it affects the trust in the relationship.
But when you betray yourself, you cause a disruption in the most important relationship of your life, the one with yourself.
And since you cannot simply walk away from yourself and pretend like nothing happened, sooner or later a self-betrayal requires facing the truth and taking full accountability for the part that you played to get to that point.
