Everyone cares what other people think, to some extent. Everyone wants to be accepted, and everyone fears that they won't be. But where is that fine line between wanting to be accepted, and changing yourself to be accepted?
I was in the car the other day with my Youth Board advisor and some other girls from the board. She was telling us about how she was raised to not care what other people think. She would dance to a song if she wanted to dance to a song.
She then proceeded to tell us that she has two sons, when they are in the car with her and all of them are listening to music she tells them that whoever was able to rock out the hardest to a song and get the person in the next car to give them a strange look gets 30 extra minutes to stay up that night.
This, in turn, taught them not to care what other people thought of them. That if they wanted to rock out to a song, they should rock out to a song, and this leading on to other things of course.
I'm not the kind of girl to change myself for other people, but I do care how other people perceive me.
Well I haven't really got anything else that's deep to add to this post, just that i thought it was a really good thing for her to teach her kids at such a young age. It was a nice observation, and a good lesson for anyone to learn.
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