Letting other people make their own choices, which might well turn into mistakes, is good for the other people and for us. If they allow us to choose for them, and we make a choice that isn’t beneficial, we become their excuse for failure. We become the unwitting scapegoat for whatever goes wrong in their life, a burden we surely don’t want and one that’s not beneficial to our own journey.
— Karen Casey, Change Your Mind and Your Life Will Follow, p. 65