It’s none of your business-those five words can seem so daunting to a person who is simply caught up in the congenital flaw of curiosity. Sure, it really is none of your business how someone choses to spend their money, why that same person is sporting a particular style, how many tattoos they have, or what their sexual orientation is, and why. To worry about those insignificant details and to project judgement onto them for those small little details is just absurd. Sometimes hearing that you need to mind your own business can offend you or even make you step back and admit your wrongs; but what if those same five words are said in reference to yourself? It is none of your business what others think of you.

In a generation filled with likes, retweets, shares, or how many people swipe right, no quantitative measure can justify your self-worth. It is so simple to get carried away obsessing over the opinions of simple minded people; but those same simple minded people are trying to rob you of your passion, spirit, livelihood, whatever it may be that you have, they want it. Simple as that.

When I first heard that expression that it is none of your business what others think of you, I didn’t know whether to be inspired or offended. My first instinct was to defend my ego by saying anything that concerns me is in fact my business. However, when I honestly step back and analyze those five words it sends my mind in a million directions. The main direction I am being lead to is that if I were to truly be aware of everyone’s cognition of myself, and to truly my exert my energy into caring about it, I would literally drive myself insane. So why fight the phrase? It is none of my business.

The extraordinarily wise and fabulous Coco Chanel once said, “I don’t care what you think about me, I don’t think about you at all.” As she is overly quoted and somehow mentioned on the majority of those cliché canvases on the walls of girls all around, she is very much right.

I don’t know exactly what it is you are saying or thinking about me.

But quite honestly, I don’t care.