Tyranny of pleasing others

A lot of pent up feelings. I know this is a laffing blog, but very hard to share with anyone adequately so putting it here. Somehow, language always fails me.

1. There are some things which I like to do, and some which I don't.
2. And there are some people that I always want to please, and I won't feel happy if I displease them.
3. So if one of those people ask me to do something that I don't like to do, how?
4. Maybe once or twice, can la, but regularly--I really don't like it. And it exhausts me.
5. And the problem is that most often the requests come with a pleading tone. So it's hard to differentiate not wanting to do the thing with not wanting to please that person.
6. Sometimes it gets very fustrating.
7. Ok, to make the picture a bit more complicated, there are some things which I don't like to do which come with the things I like to do. to use a trivial e.g. I like playing the guitar, but I don't like packing up.
8. The problem is that I know it's unavoidable...it comes with the package.
9. Last time things weren't that way tho, maybe last time the expectations were less? Just a hypothesis.
10. Sob.