The Healing Power of No

The healing power of no. Few people truly know how to say 'no'. For no is where I'm no longer willing to move my boundary. And coexisting with people (in the family, kindergarten, school, camp, university, at work) requires compromises, i.e., continuous shifts of this boundary in unknown directions. It is considered good to give in. To empathize is deemed right. In all languages, there is an equivalent to our expression 'Put yourself in my shoes'.