A penny for your thought

Have you ever just been talking to someone about something and they offer their opinion without you asking for it. Or somebody comes over your house and states that they don’t like the way you’ve set something up, IN YOUR OWN HOUSE LOL.  For some reason this has been my pet peeve the last couple of days. So if you’ve seen me in the last 2 weeks you know that I recently dyed my hair aquamarine (YES I USED THE CORRECT NAME OF THE COLOR). I’ve had so many comments on my hair. Is your hair green? Why did you dye it blue? I don’t like that at all? BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH. I became so frustrated with all the interrogation that I really wanted to just put a hat on my head and call it a day.  But it didn’t just stop with my hair color. I also recently bought a new lipstick. I absolutely love it on me. I was feeling confident with my new lippie smiling and all, and here comes my friend “I don’t like that color” on you. I sarcastically said to her “I’m not kissing you so you don’t have to worry about it”, she still felt the need to tell me again smh.  So who has the problem here, me or everyone else?

I don’t think there’s any one person to blame in any of these scenarios.  Someone is always going to have something to say about your choices in life. Their either going to agree or disagree, like it or not like it, hate it or love it.  The problem comes when you take someone else’s opinion and make it your own. Just like the other person has an opinion so do you. So many times we get caught up in what other people think or feel that we forget who we are, what we like and what we stand for. It’s ok to have an opinion in fact its strongly suggested that you have one, what’s not ok is to try to force your opinion on someone else or forget who you are.

“Opinions are like feet everybody’s got a couple and everyone thinks everyone else’s stinks”.