I have this problem with letting peoples’ opinions control me.. How I look, where I go, what I do, who i’m with… I take it all into too much consideration.

I mean, yes, thinking about the image you are portraying to the world is not a bad thing to do… but letting a cruel word get you down isn’t right.

It’s easy to complain that it is those peoples’ fault that you are depressed, but in reality, that’s not true. It’s a) Satan at work, and it’s b) my own fault.

"Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? … But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.” (Matthew 6:25-27, 33-34)

What others say shouldn’t matter, it’s God’s opinion that does.

<3jen