Embrace responsibility for yourself.

Some people will always want you to live by their standards and disapprove of you if you don’t. They will have strong opinions and narrow views with no interest in understanding beyond their personal perspectives.

It doesn’t make them bad. But it also doesn’t make you obligated to them. Their opinions are a product of their mind, not yours, and therefore not yours to babysit.

So let them carry the weight of their opinions, their judgments, and their perspectives. It’s their choice not yours. Leave it to them. You don’t get to dictate them and they don’t get to dictate you.

Embrace the chase Do the work.