Two traps you need to avoid:
1. Caring what they think
2. Thinking that they care
Most people are not living freely… they are living through imagined observation. Constantly adjusting themselves for an invisible audience.
How they look.
How they sound.
If they’re admired.
If they're respected.
If they said the wrong thing.
And slowly… their entire personality becomes edited for approval.
But the second trap is worse… believing people are thinking about you nearly as much as you think they are.
Most people are too consumed by their own problems, fears, insecurities, and ambitions to think about you for very long or at all.
Yet people sacrifice years of their life trying to avoid temporary judgment from people who will forget the moment entirely by tomorrow.
The moment your fulfillment or peace depends on public opinion… is the moment your identity no longer belongs to you… it belongs to the crowd.
Freedom begins when a person stops performing constantly for external validation, and starts building a character they can respect even in complete isolation.
Because eventually… the exhaustion of pretending becomes heavier than the fear of being disliked.
The unfortunate part is how many people never realize this trap exists… they spend their entire life trying to manage perception, avoid judgment, and gain approval from people who were never thinking about them nearly as much as they imagined.
This is your life to live…
And it’s not a dress rehearsal.
@ARCRaidersGame My matchmaking has been busted for a week. It’s exhausting having to treat every raider I run up on as hostile. I’ve started just turning it off as soon as someone kills me.
@ArcRaidersInfo I can’t play a game without getting ratted at an extract right now. I like the PvE threat, but I can’t stand playing right now where I have to treat every person I come across as a threat.
Trump just lost all of the Independents, Libertarians, Constitutional Conservatives, and Centrists. Without them he would have lost to Harris.
Bro shit and slid in it.
If legislators always vote with the President, we have a king.
If legislators always vote with the prevailing wind, we have mob rule.
If legislators always vote with the Constitution, we have a Republic.