I want to clarify this blog post title a bit, I know that most of our decisions are made based off of what others think, so to completely stop caring is not realistic. Caring if other people think you are kind, genuine, hard-working etc. is not a bad thing; however, letting the fear of others’ opinions dictate whether or not you should do what makes you happy is.
I’ve been wanting to write a blog post about this topic for a while now, especially after a bit of a negative experience my friends and I had at the Taylor Swift concert last month. We went to the concert all dressed up in crazy costumes, and of course, there were a few lovely individuals who made a point to make fun of us. I was relatively unbothered by the encounter, but this made me think about myself when I was an extremely self-conscious teenager, and how an experience like this would have ruined my entire night. I’m in a place now where I have stopped letting the fear of what others may think dictate the fun I am going to have. Once I started this blog, I realized quite quickly that I would have to muster up some self-confidence and thick skin to continue taking photos in public and posting quite a bit of my personal life. Do I know that there are probably people out there judging my page and making fun? Absolutely. Do I care? The truth is not really. For the longest time I put off starting a blog in general solely based off of the fear of what others may think. No matter what I do someone, somewhere is going to make fun or have a negative thing to say.
After hanging up the phone with my cousin discussing our harry potter costumes to wear to Universal next month, I realized how far I’ve come in letting the fear of what other’s may think stop me from having fun and making a fool of myself. To be completely clear, this fear is not gone. I don’t want anyone reading this to think that I am some fearlessly confident person. More often than not those negative thoughts creep back in and make me doubt myself. That’s when I take a deep breath and tell myself to do it anyway. No one ever got anywhere by blending in.
I want to end this post by saying one very important thing: Not caring what other’s think is not a free pass to be a terrible person. It is still important to take other’s feelings into consideration, just not their judgment.
