If it works for you, do you push it on others? Do you feel like other people push their solutions on you?

Seems to me that a lot of people are happy to tell others what has worked for them. Yoga worked for me. You should try it. Sex isn’t that important to me now. You should think that, too.

There’s a difference, of course, between telling someone what worked for you and telling someone they should do it. The first is a story, and the second is advice, and that advice can get so strong that it feels like they are telling you that if you don’t do it the way they did, there’s something wrong with you.

I think it is natural to be enthusiastic about things that help you. And to some degree, I think it is natural to want to encourage others to try it, because you believe it will help them. But it seems to me it is really easy to move from encouragement to pushing.

Do you push? Do you feel like others push you? Or do you share?