Why do You Care?

            Why do you care about what someone else thinks about you? Is it worth the stressing over every little thing you do making sure everyone around you will be accepting of it? Are you really that afraid? I am so curious as to why so many people care so much about what others think. It perplexes me as to why it matters. What is really happening is people are stripping away their personality and changing themselves to fit in and be approved of by others. People will completely change themselves. Their actions no longer represent who they are, but whom they want other people to think they are.

            People decide that since they are not accepted by the “it” crowd that they will make themselves into a person who would be. People start to lose themselves in the process and become sort of a “monster” that they have created. Many times this will start by getting a new “look” and changing the appearance. Sometimes this will work and the “it” crowd will be more accepting and welcome them to join. From here the “it” crowd will either accept that person entirely or try and change them. Other times the person will observe these people and change little things about themselves just to fit in more. With any path the personality of the person will slowly change. It occurred to me as why would you want to do this to yourself, and what better does it make you feel about yourself to have others be accepting of someone who is not actually you. They will altered themselves so much that they will no longer remember their true personality. People will stress so much about every little thing that they do to make sure it goes with their new personality. Slowly they will have changed not only the outside but also the inside.

They might work so hard at their new self that it will affect other aspects of their life. The worst part about this entire issue is that people will not realize they have become so obsessive over it until they have lost everything. Many things that someone will lose may not be gained back and then have to chose between going on as what you have become or finding their self. This is where many realize that you should be true to yourself and if people cannot accept you for who you are than what good is it for you to care.

Slowly it always comes down to one question; “Why do you care?”  This is never going to be answered the only answer is to the question “Do you care?” Honestly it will never be worth it to care. People like to search for others to accept who they are, but it never occurs to people that they should search for others to care about you because of who you are. You should take pride in who you are and be true to yourself and people will care about you for who you are. Someone please tell me if you could for I do not understand “Why do people care so much about what others think? Is it worth it?” If you think about it if you really have to change yourself for other people to accept you than do you truly accept yourself?