Lion and Magic Boy

I’ve been having a revelation I’m going to share with you. It’ll probably burst your bubble, so hang onto your hats, okay? (and watch me while I try to work some other idioms into this post).

Ready?

Here you go:

Sometimes people don’t like you.

I know, it’s a sad truth, isn’t it? I mean, how can they not like you? You’re so….you. And anyway, I like you. But they don’t. Other people. Sometimes. And there’s nothing you can do about it.

Sometimes people don’t like you, even if they have never met you. Sometimes people just make up their minds about you, for whatever reason. And that’s that. You can try to change their minds about you, you can try to explain situations, but it rarely does any good except make you even more vile and loathsome in their eyes.

Oh well! [shrug]

Why are people like that? Dunno. But it’s taken me a hell of a long time to figure this out. And I’ve spent a lot of time worrying about what people thought of me and trying to correct their erroneous impressions about me.

A friend recently gave me a quote which kind of sums this up, sums up where I am now in all this. Actually she gave me the quote twice, because apparently I needed it twice as much:

What other people think of you is none of your business.

Which means, don’t waste valuable time and energy worrying about what other people think of you. Because sometimes people just don’t like you. And it’s okay that they don’t like you. You, however, can just go about being more of you. And don’t waste time with stuff you can’t do anything about. Like if people like you.

(But you like me, don’t you? I mean, you really like me? Really?)

(Forget I asked that.)

(I know you like me!)

(…and I like you too)