This world is cruel and unfair. And if you’re too kind and too trusting and too empathetic, people will only take advantage of you.” His words hit me like a knife to the gut. Because deep down, deep in the hidden corners of my soul that I try to hide from everyone, I know that he is right. All my life, I have done everything I can to please the people around me. And all anyone has ever done is to use me because of it. I have drained myself, sacrificed everything that I wanted, to make everyone else happy and to help them achieve their goals. But it didn’t make the world better. It just made me
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