"When you’re 20 you care what everyone thinks, when you’re 40 you stop caring what everyone thinks, and when you’re 60 you realize no one was ever thinking about you in the first place" Ouch. It's a triple-layered onion of disillusionment and is simultaneously frustrating and mostly accurate. Its sobering nature also encapsulates a profound and often humorous truth about human perception and self-awareness. It charts a journey through the anxieties of youth, the burgeoning confidence of middle age, and ultimately, a liberating realization about the relative insignificance of external validation. While presented as a simple progression through decades, it speaks to deeper psychological shifts and the evolving understanding of our place in the grand scheme of things.
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