Truth-telling, though, is both contagious and addictive, and once you start doing it, it’s hard to stop. All of a sudden, opinions fell out of my mouth left and right. I knew so well, so deeply that the areas in which my life went off course were the same areas in which I had abdicated responsibility and voice. I did what “people” thought would be good for me. I did what “should” have been done. I became what I was “expected” to become. And it did not get me where I wanted to be.
