WHy is it good to NOT CARE what others think?

[Davaroo]

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And when they're not?... we put them on Jerry Springer!

 

[miss_thenorth]

There is only one person in this world who I try to impress, and care what He thinks. If I please Him, then the people who matter shouldn't have a problem with me. The people that don't matter----just don't matter.

 

[behrable]

yes exzactly

 

[rooster-red]

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It started when society started accepting excuses for plain old bad behavior.

 

[Cassandra]

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I think I am beginning to see the point you are making. When the collective "we" have realized, through generations of trial and error, what we can do to live together in mostly harmony--why must there always come along someone who wants to muck it all up by being insisting it's his right to do as he pleases?

Someone wants to exercise his freedom of expression by painting the word "WH*RE" on an overpass I have to drive under every day, where my little boy can read it and wonder what it means and why someone painted it there.

We have trash pickup on Tuesdays and someone wants to leave his ugly trash out by the road all week so the dogs can drag it around.

We (as a population) have outgrown the "n" word and someone insists it's just a word and if people are getting offended by it, it's *their* problem, not his.

We've learned that families and communities flourish when most children grow up within two parent, committed families, but there are so many who want to go 'round making babies and taking no responsibility for them, leaving them for everyone else to take care of. (NOTE: This is not a jab at non-traditional families. I got pg out of wedlock way back when and I've been divorced and have no shame about any of that. This is just an example.)

These few examples range from innocuous to serious, but the common theme is that people are selfishly causing problems for ME, and they just don't care.

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I think those folks should be rounded up and taken to some uninhabited island so they can all be themselves--together.

Cassandra

 

[Oblio13]

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It's that Alan Hannawalt again, isn't it?! He always gets the hot chicks.

 

[seminolewind]

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I tend to also believe the words of the great late Jim Morrison "people are strange"

I was a FTW un teen, swung to the opposite side

in my 20's, and am now a

paranoid 30 something

with my bottle of xanax, not sure if I should care, I guess I'll just have to take another xanax and consult with my flock of therapists.

DID I WRITE THIS?????? Oh, maybe not, I'm in my 40's

 

[seminolewind]

I love commenting on this subject.

It is very good for your mental health not to care what others think. If you become obsessed about what people think, you are eating away at your own mental health and the importance of being content and enjoying your life.
God, I wish I could use this advice more than I do

 

[RioLindoAz]

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Your caring about what others think

 

[Davaroo]

Actually I care very much what others think. I dont obsess over it, but it is the one measure of the sort of person that I am.
If I alone judged myself, telling myself only what I wanted to hear and convincing myself that only I matter, then I would become totally self-centered.

It is a large view, even global, to know that No Man Is An Island, and it is through the eyes of others that we really see ourselves. I'm only truly free when I understand that.