Own your life

There are many unflattering adjectives that have been used to describe me over the years.

Before life got real, it used to trouble me to think that others had a negative opinion of me despite my best efforts to be a decent human.

It was a distraction that sometimes still gets the better of me. Fortunately, only in short bursts these days.

I don’t assume that I’m never any of what they accuse me of.

I know I’m entirely capable of being a difficult person, or even an abrasive and opinionated fool.

But, I only reconsider my actions if I receive such feedback from someone who is willing to engage beyond the insult or the negative assumption.

Everyone is opinionated. Many just don’t have the courage to speak plainly from fear of rejection or being unpopular.

Those are the ones that I ignore.

Not because I think I’m better than them, but because they have nothing of value that I can work with in my efforts to be better than who I was the moment before they shared their opinion about me.

Without such a mindful consideration of what people think of me, I literally would have been six feet under in an unmarked grave from having taken my own life because of the bitterness that others project onto me when they’re not willing to face their own demons.

My sanity and my life is mine to own.

If I give up that accountability, I will be no more than an attention whore praying for acceptance by the spineless.

Life is too short for such frivolity.

Own your life. If you’re not owning it, someone else is.

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