Why People Pleasing Behavior Slowly Robs Us of Our True Self

Bradford Chase
5 min readNov 20, 2018

Sitting in a dark room surrounded by silence, your thoughts focus on a feeling of loneliness. You feel trapped by the demands of the people who surround you daily. Everyone wants something from you. Your time is not your own.

You want to say something, to speak up about the pressure you feel, but you believe it falls on deaf ears and so you remain in your bubble of inner turmoil.

No one else will ever change, you think to yourself. You have to try harder to make them happy so your personal conflict…

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Bradford Chase

I take pictures & write stories. Sometimes I get paid. A perpetual student of life who gets lost on purpose. Clap. Hit Follow. Come along for the ride.