A Reason Not to Worry What Others Think

We spend a little too much time worrying about how we must appear in the minds of others. However, the poignant, useful truth is that almost everyone doesn't care at all about who we are, what we're doing and how we've messed up.

FURTHER READING

“Landscape with the Fall of Icarus is a large painting from the 1560s that hangs in Belgium’s largest museum, the Musée des Beaux Arts – and is held to be a meticulous copy of an original (now lost) work by the Flemish artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder. It shows a superficially bucolic scene: ships are taking sail, a shepherd is tending to his flock, distant cities look prosperous and ordered…”

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[yko]

"We suffer more often in imagination than in reality"
- Senica

[frostlastyosup]

"We lie awake at night wondering how we could cope without the approval of people we don't even like very much."

[Morten_Nielsen]

“It never ceases to amaze me: We all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

[namjoo]

“It’s funny how we crumble from the words of a person that hasn’t lived a second of our life”

[aidakx]

"We are at the center of the galaxy only in our own tortured minds."

[enio]

My psychoterapist said, "if you want to defeat your shame or fear of other people's opinions, you should do little things that make you feel ashamed or scare you. Step by step, you wouldn't care anymore".
This is how I started my YouTube channel actually, I was afraid of showing myself, so I started a vlog about losing weight :)

[Chetan-rxec]

"Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner." - Lao Tzu

[c.]

Worrying about what people think is a waste of energy.

[sabbathwasset-upatcreation]

""When you’re 20, you care what everyone thinks, when you’re 40 you stop caring what everyone thinks, when you’re 60, you realize no one was ever thinking about you in the first place."

[bballjulien]

i think logically most people know this, but in practice its ingrained in all of us to want social acceptance

[hozabd]

Funny enough the world still remembers the fall of icarus.

Edit: i came here today because i remembered icarus! And this comment
To those whom taking my sarcastic comment seriously i assure you i didnt miss the point i only added some humor here.
I appreciate the message the school of life gives here as in every video they share, however i also see things from my own perspective as we all do..
The myth of icarus resonates to me very much as i also hope those around me to be content as the world is not going to stop whether we got there or not..

[rebeccamcevoy]

"The world is still filled with humans who haven't heard of us, and never will."

[AbrahamSalazar]

In short:

Don't worry about what people think about you because the fact is—they are not even thinking about you in the first place.

[EmilayBemilayDisaray]

At least we know Icarus didn't care about what his father thought..

[lady]

My friends and some family members called me”selfish”because I stopped being a pleaser and I don’t care what they think. it’s my life and I like peace of mind with no drama.

[utmst]

When x amount of people judge you, the same amount of people respect you more for being yourself

[ArielTst]

"Lol no one cares"
- School of life

[guacamoleniqqapeniss]

"We surrender our freedom to the verdicts of strangers"

[BlackBird]

This Channel is a teenagers life saver.. Seriously, it seems like every time that some issue is bothering me, SchoolOfLife is there to address it

[emototheextremo]

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