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What People Think

What People Think
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I was in an improv group that performed skits before groups as an alternative to speakers. In one skit, I played a mom, who cared more about what the neighbors thought than she did about her own daughter’s pain. Remembering that performance was the genesis of this episode.

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What People Think –  #272

We were just talking about what people think of you.  Should you care what they think?  Seems it should depend on who is doing the thinking.

A friend recently told me that he likes his wife’s hair because she still wears it fluffy.  That’s not the current trend in hair styles.  But which is more important – being a trend setter or setting your guy’s heart aflutter when he looks at you in that fluffy hair style that he loves.

As we get older, we sometimes fall victim to what other people think.  We seem to let them convince us that they know better about what we should do, or say, or look like.  They say that walking on 5 inch high heels is the way to look cool.  They threaten that love belongs only to those skeletal enough to wear a size 4.  They warn that nobody over 50 can get a job in this new economy.  None of that may be true for you.  Don’t believe it.  Make a judgment for yourself about what is true and act accordingly.

Every day, we are faced with decisions.  We can make them based on our own values or based on what others will think.  Which will you choose today? 

The best advice seems to be the one frequently directed to young people as they mature – be true to yourself.  If you can do that, no matter what your age, you’ll probably make out just fine.

P.S.   

What experience do you have about what people think?  Want to share something with our listeners and readers?  Scroll down and write on.

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