Richard Harrison Memphis writes…
Nobody does it better. You are the rockstar of your life. You make it everything you want life to be, and you do it by never standing aside for someone else to take the reins.
Be in power. Do not be powerless. Powerlessness is when you let someone else be in control. Speak up for yourself. Express what you like. Keep on doing it. That is the key to becoming powerful.
One cannot let the others tell them to listen and do as they say, that the word of the other is the final call on things in your life, be the other doctor, parent, therapist, teacher, or classmate. It is in your best interest to remember what you like and do not like. Rather than, taking the promise of getting what you like by doing it their way, do it your own way. Rather than complying with authoritarians, who explain that this suffering of theirs is what is good for us, be like Jerry in Tom and Jerry, and skip castor oil.
The only person you listen to is God. God is the inspiration derived from reading the ancient words of the Bible.
Others will make you act like somebody else, make you into who they want you to be. You will not be happy with it.
With your bosses and other authorities, you should do as little as possible to play to who they want you to be. Fight for you. Respect everyone. Even disrespectful folks. Challenge. Question authority.