If you live your life to please everyone else, you will continue to feel frustrated and powerless. This is because what others want may not be good for you. You are not being mean when you say NO to unreasonable demands or when you express your ideas, feelings, and opinions, even if they differ from those of others. For the moment regardless of anything else I do in my life, I am staying put. I may hate it here but I have always had options to move on elsewhere since I returned to the 905, I haven't. Esp. The last five years because there are things here that need to be dealt with, need to be accomplished. It's not a question of if they need to be dealt with, it's a question of when. It's always been a question of when. There are things I don't walk away from, things that are important. If I'm told to choose, I consider my options carefully. If I'm forced to choose between them and other things I choose to run. I can take care of myself that's never be