Don't take anything personally.
That's the second agreement of Don Miguel Ruiz's classic, "The Four Agreements."



















I need a reminder today.



Whatever happens around you, don't take it personally...
Nothing other people do is because of you.
It is because of themselves.
All people live in their own dream, in their own mind;
they are in a completely different world from the one we live in.
When we take something personally, we make the assumption that
they know what is in our world, and we try to impose our
world on their world.

Even when a situation seems so personal,
even if others insult you directly,
it has nothing to do with you.
What they say, what they do, and the opinions they
give are according to the agreements they have in their own minds...
Taking things personally makes you easy prey for these predators,
the black magicians. They can hook you easily with one little opinion and feed you whatever poison they want, and
because you take it personally, you eat it up....

But if you do not take it personally,
you are immune in the middle of hell.
Immunity in the middle of hell is the gift of this agreement.



I'm not there yet. I am way too sensitive and way too vulnerable to the opinions of others.

So, I keep trudging along. One day at a time. Reminding myself what
others think DOES NOT matter and SHOULD NOT matter.
Pretty selfish (in my mind and way of thinking) but that is who
or 'what' I am.