I no longer worry about what others think about me. That sounds great, but it wasn’t easy to get to this point. I was brought up in a pretty nice environment. My parents were nice, my friends’ parents were nice. I turned out pretty nice. We tried to avoid trouble. We worried about what other people thought about us. We avoided conflict where possible, at least until it was too late, and then someone had a blow up, and pretty soon we could all move past it and pretend that it didn’t happen.