Finding Freedom In Authenticity
And please stop taking responsibility for other people’s feelings
4 min readMar 26, 2021
I had quite an interesting conversation with my ten-year-old friend Emilia the other day. She told me how her best friend Leslie upset her. Apparently, Leslie told Emilia that she’d rather go walk somebody else’s dog than video chat with her. “That’s so mean! Why doesn’t she care about my feelings…