07/02/2023
I used to care too much about what other people thought of me. Of their opinions on my body & life in general. Until I finally learned that it is out of my control. That it is none of my business. That really, it is nothing to do with me at all.
I, most of us, take things too personally. We make almost everything about us & this is exhausting. If someone ever had a problem with me, I would assume that was because there WAS a problem with me. I *must* be too much or not enough of something. Other people MUST be right. Why else would they say it? It HAS to be true, doesn't it?
No.
I just couldn’t see that before. Because I was relentless in my mission to make it all about me; taking responsibility that wasn’t mine to take, absorbing everyone else’s opinions. I didn’t need to do this. I didn’t need to let their problems become my problems.
I have finally been able to step into my power in a way that I never would've imagined possible before. I have become a person who respects myself enough to know that MY opinion of me is of more important than anyone else's. That I can trust myself & crucially, I can like myself, regardless of any external validation.
I can control who I am. I can work every day to be a person that I am proud of. I can train my body to be stronger, fitter & more capable - without fixating on it's outward appearance & I can accept that that's as much as I can do.
How other people interpret it, how they want to interpret me? What they comment? That's on them. That's out of my control and therefore it is their problem, not mine.
So remember, never pay attention to anyone else’s comments or opinions on your appearance or your life. That’s not your responsibility to take 🤍
