Lately I have been thinking that I should sacrifice my desire for social acceptance/sex/other types of ego pleasure to profess things I believe in my core to be right. I have been doing things like posting weird but important things on social media, apologizing to people I have wronged in the past, etc.
The only thing is, it makes me feel kind of shitty to do these kind of things. Sometimes people will tell me I am ’embarrassing’ myself, and I have been losing some relationships (admittedly ones that are not as important to me). But also I have been filled with negative emotions, as if my body is trying to tell me ‘don’t you want to get laid?!?’
So what do you all think? Is there value to conforming to some norms to make life a little more pleasant? Or should I continue down this path and suck up the negative emotions? I know the latter seems obvious as the right answer but still I wonder….
