Today, if I feel like it, I intend to go out wearing something my fiveyearold daughters might have chosen - even if it makes me look as if I'm auditioning for a post as a clown.
What other people think of me is really not my concern - it is entirely up to them, not my business. My business is to 100% experience myself and my own life, in this vibrantly alive universe. How on earth can I expect to be in good contact with my own spirit, if I'm busy angsting over how that spirit - my soul - will look to other people, if I'm preoccupied by how I'll be perceived as a 'soul-conscious person'? That's just SO up myself!
When I get lost in worrying about what other people might think, I spend all my time attempting to manage what I imagine they might be thinking... whether they are thinking it or not. My mum used to say sagely, 'you wouldn't worry half as much about what people thought of you, if you knew just how rarely they did'.
As someone with a natural tendency to self-absorption, the opinions of others can rule me if I let them. In fact, fear of them robs me of my very direction in life. They can keep me from living as I might like to live. But they don't have to.....The opinions of others belong to them, and that's where they should stay.
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