Quote (TheUranusProject @ Thu, 30 Apr 2009, 18:03)
Actually, the whole idea behind the "it doesn't matter what others think" is to promote individuality and spirituality in relation with yourself. Society only affects you if you let it affect you. At the end of the day, you're living your own life within your own world. It doesn't matter how much money you have or how many people like you, at the end of the day, you are still alone, with nobody but your body and your mind. Society is just an external force existing in an external world. It does not affect the inner person, and you should not let it affect it. Are we really living in a world with people and cities and nature and animals? or are we actually simply living in our mind and body which experience these things? This is the ideology behind the "it doesn't matter what others think". There is an existence beyond the realm of senses, and this existence resides in yourself.
Did you read the whole thing? What about this, not literally, but figuratively so that you get the point: "In no way can an innocent person walk free of the perpetually corrupted need for blame of the American juducial system, when everyone around them thinks that they are guilty. Similarly, at no time will any person ever be hired for a job that they don't qualify for, just because they think themselves to be capable."