I stopped focusing on people being different, and I started treating everyone the same way.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I try to treat people the way I would like to be treated, but I can't worry about what everyone's going to think.
When I wasn't working I didn't know what to do with myself and sort of didn't exist, in a way, when I wasn't working, so I was like two different people. I am not like that anymore.
People have a problem with me being different, but that propels me forward in life.
I think I was a behavior problem, mostly, but in a fun way. I tried to tell jokes. I was the middle kid, so I was always looking for attention and trying to be the one that equalized everything.
I didn't care what people thought of me, that I was getting better, pushing myself to get better. Those are the things I concentrate on. I don't concentrate on what everyone else was saying.
I started acting as a way to support myself.
I treat others exactly the way I want to be treated.
I stopped living according to my core values. I knew what I was doing was wrong but thought only about myself and thought I could get away with whatever I wanted to.
I try to not focus on what people expect from me.
So I really did stop and change what I saw I was about, and really try to put that principle into play as the center of everything - my friendships, my marriage, my career, my family, my way of being in the world. And that changed everything for me.