You have to live your life for yourself. You can’t let anyone else’s opinion change who you are or what you do. Once you start changing who you are to please someone else, you can become stressed, less confident, less self-assured and depressed.
No matter what you do, someone will talk about you. Someone will always question your judgement. Someone will always doubt you. So just smile and make the choices you can live with. ~Unknown
Some people can be so critical. And usually the most critical people don’t have their own lives in order. I think they are this way because they want to defer attention away from their own messed up lives to others’ lives. Be assured these people are out there. I’d like to say that one day all people will be positive, supportive and we’ll all peacefully co-exist. But that’s not going to happen. There is always, always, always going to be people who get their kicks by talking about and judging others.
But you can’t let them affect you. Shake it all off. You have to do what you think is best. No one is walking in your shoes. No one knows what it takes to live your life. No one knows the sacrifices you have made, the hours you have put in or the tears you’ve cried to get to where you are. And they don’t have to know. They don’t deserve to know.
Pray about your decisions. Talk to God about what is best for you and your life. And make choices that you can live with. Make choices that are right for you.
Have you ever heard the expression, “Grinning like a chicken”? LOL. That’s a down-home Southern expression. And it’s not just Southern. It’s a down-on-the-farm expression. It means you are smiling like you have no cares in the world, no worries. You are smiling like you are confident, like you know that God has your back. You are smiling like you own your life and your decisions and your choices. That’s what it means to “Grin like a chicken”.
The next time somebody talks about you, questions your judgement or doubts you, you stand tall, hold your head up high, walk proud and grin like a chicken!
Sending you a “grin like a chicken” from Sterrett, Alabama!
Charity
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Marvelous thoughts and words to motivate me when the drama of life is attempting to beat me down once more. As though our Father God sent me a text or stuck a ‘postit’ message on the refrigerator.
Keep the faith, Terry.
Charity