You don't always have to please everybody all the time.
I have always been a people pleaser. I can still remember times when as a kid I got a stern look from a lifeguard and it just about ruined my day.
I've realized though in recent years that it is exhausting, and really impossible, to please everybody. You just can't. Nor are you expected to.
There are times when it is definitely the goal to do whatever you can to make a certain person happy. And sometimes you'll have to make sacrifices to do that.
But you know what? It's ok if sometimes you say or do something that ticks someone else off. You don't have to be apologetic or feel bad.
I'm not saying it's ok to be mean. It's not alright to purposefully tick people off. But if someone chooses to be offended or upset by something you said that you didn't mean for them to take that way, it's their problem, not yours.
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