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The Good News About Your Perception

Olya Barnett
2 min readJul 25, 2019

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Photo by Joanna Nix on Unsplash

I’ve got some good news:

How you view something, or someone is entirely subjective.

Here’s why it’s good news:

  1. You don’t have to worry about what others think of you
  2. You can CHANGE the way you THINK of others/things/etc.,

Let’s begin with number one:

Don’t worry about what anyone thinks of you:

FIRSTLY- You’re just as WORTHY as they are!

Now that we got that out of the way, here’s the deal:

You don’t have to worry about what others think of you because every human lives life through their own perception. Which means that they have developed their own ‘lens’ of how they see life; be it themselves, others, things, etc., and will continue to do so.

Something that’s ‘wrong’ in your eyes, might be ‘right’ in someone else’s eyes because that is THEIR truth. It’s THEIR life path and therefore not your problem.

This is amazing news because you now know that what others think of you is OUT of your control entirely; which means you’re NOT responsible for it. And if you’re not responsible for it, then that means you don’t have to WORRY about it. And if you get to that ‘worry’ point, then now you’re CHOOSING to…

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Olya Barnett
Olya Barnett

Written by Olya Barnett

A Soul having a human experience while learning how to get out of her own way and empowering those along the way with one writing or creative piece at a time!

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