Making a Difficult Decision

Happy New Year!

My mum taught me the first lesson of the year by teaching me how to reject an invitation for dinner.
Usually, an invitation for dinner is taken as a kind gesture.
However, it can be a plan to ask you for a favour in the future, taking advantage of reciprocity, basically.
Remember to think twice about attending an invitation for dinner. They mean more than what you think.

I have known to be soft-hearted in the family.
Sometimes, I care more about other people's feeling than my desire.
It is not entirely bad but it can put me in a very difficult position when making a decision.
What happened was I did not want to accept the invitation for good but the other party was insisting.
Our conversation reached a point where I thought I was about to give in to the pressure and my mum told me to reject once more.
I did as I was told but I felt really bad for doing that. I clenched my heart and declined once more. The other party did not respond after that. I was relieved.

The lesson is that in life you need to make difficult decisions for the long-term good, no matter how hard it is. 

If you are like me, soft-hearted, I suggest you use my method: count to 3, make sure you do what your mind and heart say. I am sure you won't regret it later.