Old Ned

Imagine being so blind that you can't see what is right in front of your face?

No one tells you because they don't want to hurt your feelings.

Sometimes you feel uncomfortable, but you brush that off because no one else seems to be upset.

Of course they are just not telling you because they don't want to hurt your feelings or upset you.

Once in a while you do get a glimpse of what has become glaringly apparent to others, but you brush it aside because you are afraid this is the best you can hope for.

Not only is settling a poor substitute for true happiness, your behavior is what made it possible for the Nazis to exterminate millions of innocent people, bullies to reign in terror over others, abuse to occur again and again.

Someone else is doing it too?  That doesn't change anything.

It just means more than one more person is accepting something very bad. 

Old Ned will creep up on anyone who will let him.