Releasing What Other's Think

"It is from the burden of others watching and judging that the need to achieve gets exaggerated into the want for fame.  It is in the unwatched space that peace begins." Mark Nepo

I read an amusing sign in the office of the social worker at the nursing home.  "When we are 40, we think everyone is watching us.  When we are 50, we don't care who is watching us.  When we are 60, we realize that no one was watching us at all."  The reason I find it funny is that it is so true.  Most of us are trained as children to think others are watching us, and, really, nothing could be further from the truth.  Most people are so caught up in the drama of their own lives that they do not watch nor care about what is happening in others' lives.  The exception might be those people who thrive on gossip:  watching others so that they can be the first to report something they consider newsy.  But, for the most part, no one is watching.  No one much cares what we do as long as it does not affect them personally.  Let us be at peace knowing that others really do not think about us much at all.