Your peace deserves more loyalty than someone else’s temporary approval.

Approval from someone is temporary and usually costs more than it returns, especially when maintaining it requires you to keep absorbing things. Your calm is something you live inside every day. Trading it for a good moment with someone is a bad exchange rate that is easy to miss in the moment.

When you are about to agree to something to avoid disappointing someone, price it. Ask what the next week looks like if you say yes. Then choose with the full figure in front of you.