My husband had lost a bunch of weight. We got home from a party and I asked what people said about how he looked.
“You know,” he said, “most people aren’t paying attention.”
That’s when I finally got it.
Most people are too busy thinking about themselves to be thinking about you. Not in a narcissistic way. In a distracted, wrapped up in their own stuff way.
Checking how you look. Replaying what you said. Wondering if they judged.
That’s a lot of wasted energy.
It’s such a relief to finally accept that most people really aren’t paying attention to you.
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