Nah... I disagree. If you are comfortable in your skin, you act it. That attracts people to you no matter what you look like on the outside.

Guess now I could feel like you were when no one made any comment about your quote. Sorta rejected, eh? Well, I still stand with what I said to you. The most important person that needs to believe it is YOU.

Personally, I've come to believe what the article said and I try to live by it every chance I get, especially when I know I'm going to be around people that like to criticise me. I don't have to let their negative statements inside my boundaries. It works for me!

At least I've learned that when people don't particularly like that article or what I have to say about it, I KNOW, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that it wasn't ignored because I posted it. It's not about me. It's about them.

I used to think EVERYTHING was all about me but that was because most of us with mental illness obsess about ourselves and we think everyone else does, too. I was deluded in my thinking that I had, or should have, that much power over people. I don't. That was rather presumptuous! Even great teachers and prophets are unpopular and are not listened to. So who did I think I was that anyone HAD TO pay attention to anything I said? I did it because I was in the throws of my own mental illness. When I got that under control, I realized that SOME people will listen and some won't. But as long as I listen and I allow the positive to become a part of me, that's all that really matters. I can't change anyone else, but I can sure change me! It's ME that I have to live with, that I have to be comfortable with.