In Case Nobody Told You Don’t Invest In Other People’s Opinion Of You

In case nobody told you… Don’t invest in other people’s opinion of you.  You can change yourself a hundred different ways to get other people to approve of you and there will still be those who don’t.  Your beauty will please some and threaten others. Your intelligence will impress one person and offend another. You will be too tall, too short, too smart, too attractive, too nice, not nice enough, too talented, too poor, and not educated enough for people who are determined to not like you.  You must decide that it doesn’t matter what anyone else thinks of you.  Their opinions don’t make your bed, pay your bills, or fill your stomach, so stop investing your focus and energy into them.  
– Emily Maroutian