"So many people need you to behave in a certain way for them to feel
good. They condemn you for your selfishness. "How dare you be so selfish
as to follow what makes you feel good? You should follow what makes us
feel good." At an early age, you were convinced that you weren't smart
enough to know, and that somebody else should make the decisions... You
could not live in this culture during the times of your life without
getting a huge amount of information relative to that, just in the way
people respond to the things you do and say."
-- Abraham-Hicks