Maybe it comes with age.
Maybe it comes with experience.
Or, a combination of both.
At some point, you must stop caring as much what others think.
As a child/teenager, I struggled with self esteem. I never saw much value in myself.
If I’m going to be totally honest, I still struggle with that.
There’s a part of me that wants to please others. To put their opinion of me ahead of the opinion I have of myself.
I have to overcome that!
I must stop sacrificing the person I am only to be what others expect me to be.
I love the words in the picture Steve. Good thoughts expressed today.
ReplyDeleteYep. You do. I can be the same way. I can also swing to the other extreme and not give a bleep about anyone or what they have to say because I get so frustrated with myself and others. I had a friend who used to encourage me when I got all bent out of shape with myself or what others thought with what was a new saying to me at the time, "Let the pagans have their altars..."
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