We are not…

We are not the sum of what other people think of us. For however many versions of ourselves that exist in other heads, I’d say that very few of them are so close to the actual you.

It’s easy to get caught up in worrying about how we are perceived. Or about how the way we are makes others react. Lots of us seem to take it personally when others just don’t quite follow the script we write.

Well, everyone has been handed a different kind of itinerary. In a room full of the people closest to you, you are still alone with yourself and so the same is for everyone else.

Not everything that happens is because of you, or for you, or to you, or about you — sometimes we’re just there to watch another mishmash story unfold.