Do people ever really stop caring about what others think? When?
By Jazmine Boloor
I believe that it is very possible to stop caring what others think, but to come to that stage in life, you have to have a clear mindset of your goals, self-worth, and life in general. There's almost a stigma in society that if you don't care what people think, then you don't care about yourself. However, this statement is completely false and opposite, as they go hand in hand with each other. Spending time worried about what others think is just a wasted emotion. However, society today has placed people in the frame of mind where they seem to care more now than they ever did before.
Society today puts a lot of pressure on our youth to look and dress a certain way, so much so that pressure trickling up to our older generations, who are now starting to do the same thing. Today, we see people in their 70s looking and dressing like their 40, instead of being content with being the older generation that our younger people could look up to. I feel that today we face a greater number of problems in the world than ever before. If people took the same amount of energy they spend worrying about what others think about them, and put that energy into solving the worlds problems, we would all be in a much better place.
by Ms. Holt
People don’t really ever stop caring about what others think about them. Throughout a person’s life, they have many social groups they interact with (school, family, work, friends, being out in the public, etc.), and you want the people in those social groups to think well of you. As you get older, though, you find that it’s more important to surround yourself with people who accept you for who you are. Then, you can be yourself and worry less about what others think about you.
