By Luminita D. Saviuc | Purpose Fairy
“Other people’s opinions of you are just that – their own opinions. And even though you might think their opinions of you matter, they really don’t.” ~ Luminita D. Saviuc
How many times did you allow others’ opinions of you to keep you from being the person you dream of being? How many times did you allow ‘their’ opinions of you to distract you from living your life your way?
What other people think of is none of your business. And you should never allow other’s opinions of you to influence how you think, feel, and behave.
6 Reasons Why Others Opinions of You Don’t Matter at All
1. It’s the small-minded people who are concerned with what others are doing.
When you have nothing better to do with your time, you go around looking for people whose lives are interesting and you talk about them.
Why?
Because you secretly believe that in doing so, you will ‘add value’ to your own life. But you and I know that isn’t true.
If people are concerned with who you are and how you are living your life, it’s only because in their eyes your life looks a lot more interesting than their own lives.
2. Their opinions of you come from a place of insecurity.
Those who are concerned with what others are doing are usually insecure people who haven’t yet found a way to embrace with grace all that life created them to be.
Because they feel lost and disconnected – from their Truth and Inner Being, they take their focus from themselves and place it on others.
This is just a trap in which so many people fall into. And even though at first sight it might appear that they are horrible people, in truth, they are just misguided beings who want to feel loved, acknowledged and who want to be heard and seen…
3. Their opinions of you don’t describe You, it describes Them.
How other people see you are mostly a reflection of who they themselves are. If their hearts are pure and their intentions are honest, they will also see you pure, good and honest. If not, they will see in you a reflection of that which is dark and hidden within themselves.
4. Don’t take it personally.
Believe it or not, we don’t see the world as it is. We see it as we are. In describing others, we are in fact describing ourselves.
From other people’s opinions of you, you don’t discover who You are, you discover who they are. And when you know this to be true, how can you take it personally?
