Several years ago someone gave me the advice to “say yes more”. In hindsight, they very likely meant just to say yes to opportunities and adventures and things that scared me but my brain doesn’t always work in the way that it should — it took this advice as: you should always say yes. To everything. Even if it hurts you. Even if you don’t want to. Even if your intuition is screaming NO. Even if you don’t have the energy. I said yes. Over and over again, I said yes. I was slowly destroying mysel