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Prompt #28 - Being Liked
Prompt 28
"If your number one goal is to make sure that everyone likes and approves of you, then you risk sacrificing your uniqueness and, therefore, your excellence"

I’ve never set out to be liked. Although approval from my peers is gratifying it’s never something that I have particularly strived for and I admit it’s not something I’ve paid much attention to. I’m not sure what I would do to be liked. I know there are times when I am well like and others when I am not.

Often the latter is when I follow my own moral code and it differs from those around me. Sometimes I do feel lie I’m all alone in a certain situation. Ultimately however I can only do what I feel is right. I think it’s more important to be happier with yourself and be proud of your actions than simply to be liked.

When you are liked it is often not who you are either. People want to be liked and change things about themselves to try and fit in. I admit I’ve been tempted sometimes to do that but ultimately I’ve realised the error of my ways.

There is one person, however, who does like me despite my faults, perhaps for them and my own uniqueness. Ray. He likes me and no-one else matters. I never had to change for him or be who I wasn’t. Which is why his opinion is something I value and his approval means the world to me.