Other People’s Opinions

Other People’s Opinions

Other people’s opinions about me are none of my business! I don’t know how many times when I am getting dressed to leave my house I think, “Will someone think this shirt makes me look fat?” Why? Why should it even matter to me what anyone thinks about my clothes? The fact is, it is really none of my business what someone else thinks about the way I am dressed. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t want to leave the house looking like a hot mess, but I shouldn’t choose my clothes worrying about what some total stranger will think I look like in a shirt! I have to thank Rachel Hollis for this life changing epiphany. I was listening to her book “Girl, Stop Apologizing” (if you haven’t read it or “Girl, Wash Your Face”, you need to!) when she said “other people’s opinions about you are none of your business.” I had to back it up and listen to it again. Because, ya’ll, it spoke to me! I never thought about it before, but she is so right!
How many of us worry about what someone else thinks about our parenting style or about the things we say or what we wear? Oh, that’s just me? Maybe so. But not anymore. I have decided that my worth is not determined by someone else’s opinion. There are always going to be people in our lives that have harsh opinions about every little thing we do, say, or wear. They are judgmental and feel they have the right to that judgement. But they don’t get to decide our value with those opinions. I know that I have value. From the day that I was born, I had value. And no one will determine that value for me. Don’t let other people determine your value with their opinions either. You have value and worth! So live the life that you were meant to live and stop worrying about other people’s opinions, because their opinions are really none of your business.