An idea, a thought, an anecdote, a story or a poem a day!

"How does one keep going when the going gets really, really tough?"  R ecently,  I came across this hypothetical questioning of our efforts to please those, who are hard to please.  This would usually be the case in really intimate relations. One party keeps trying to please the other party, but can never do so. But they don't or can't give up! Can they?  The author was writing about how difficult  pleasing some people is, almost impossible, but we still keep trying to please them. But why? I understand this feeling, and yes, I'm also bewildered that why do we put up with so much, just to please those people, whom we can never please.  These people that we try to please, I would say,  would be mostly our f amily  members,  or very close relatives, and friends, or our superiors, and work colleagues, as I'm sure, we don't try to please strangers! So how long does one keep going, that's the question, but it is not a true question, just a hypothe...