One of the questions that can be very helpful to ask ourselves from time to time is, Does this choice, does this juncture in my life, does this relational situation, does this work situation, or is the path I’m on make me a larger person or make me a smaller person? I believe we know the answer to that question. We may not wish to know the answer, we may flee the answer, but we know the answer. As the French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre pointed out, we can live in mauvais foi or bonne foi—bad faith or good faith—with our own souls. Something in us knows, always.
