How Not Taking Anything Personally Transformed My Life
Understanding that I am not the receiver on every end
We spend a lot of time thinking about other people. What they think, say and do. I know I used to worry about the impression I left on others until I came to realize one simple fact:
The world doesn’t revolve around me.
That’s right. As difficult as it may be to digest, I am not standing on a pedestal above the rest of society. Yes, I am an individual, but I am not the only individual living and experiencing their own complicated life.
With that being said, I have come to understand that people’s reflections on me are not personal — meaning, they’re not meant to reflect me, but how they see me. Just as random and temporary my thoughts are of others, so are theirs of me. It has taken me a few years to grasp that people are too involved in responding to their own lives to be remarking mine for more than a few seconds — or minutes.
Roller-Coaster Perceptions
People’s opinions tend to change according to their moods. If we are to worry about everything someone has to comment on in a…
