“Nice people do not make interesting characters. They only make good ex-spouses”.
Isabel Allende’s 2007 speech calling on passion and an end to violence against women includes this aside, where she references being “nice” as the antithesis of passion.
“Nice” is a primal direction, delivered mostly to little girls who dare to preview wild, passionate spirits. It is the teaching that to express independence means you are “bad” or ”not nice”. Disconnection from the truth of the self often begins early in life.
Watch out for these insidious imbeds or outside personality directives that disconnect us from being whole and living passionately.