External validation is like salt water; the more you drink, the thirstier you get. Someone will always have an opinion about what you should, or shouldn’t be doing based on their experiences. All you can do is what you feel is best for your own life.

Indeed. I present you .. "a tiktok influencer".

Lol I just have been so mean to myself for so long, that it only makes sense to understand part of being human is the ups and the downs. May as well make the best of it.

If everyone else thinks something I’m doing makes me a loser, I think some self reflection on the thing I’m doing is warranted. I don’t get this blind audacity that others opinions are useless.

I would start by ditching these people and create a new healthy environment for myself. Whoever thinks or says I'm a loser has no place near me.

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This. Sometimes we get way too involved in our own ways and forget to be introspective. It’s important to ask ourselves if what we are doing is right, or why we are doing something. If we don’t then we can easily become monsters.

You got this bro