Being raised in a society where numbers are important, it's common to feel bad when your numbers “don’t quite measure up.”

Real talk: a number doesn't have the power to define you. It’s just a number.

1. Your weight doesn’t define you.

This is the most difficult number for us to ignore, but if we don't we live life by the scale and that's no way to live! You are not your weight. It's just a number that explains how much space you take up. You look great, so go eat a cookie or salad. You do you!

2. Your phone number and who you give it to doesn’t define you.

If you don’t give your number to someone at a bar, you aren’t rude or a b*tch. And if you give your number to six people at a bar, you aren’t a slut. Do what you want.

3. The number of people you’ve slept with doesn’t define you.

You willingly participating in a sexual encounter says nothing about who you are. It’s probably the most arbitrary number out there. Also, it's one of the most sexist. If a girl’s number is higher than 10, so what? If a guy’s number is lower than 5, so what? Our list of sexual partners speaks nothing about our personality.

4. Your salary doesn’t define you.

This is common sense. Teachers make way less than doctors, but they do equally important things with their lives.

5. Your GPA doesn’t define you.

Your GPA doesn't determine your intelligence, and even if it did, it wouldn't matter! There are so many types of intelligence out there that even if you're bad at math that doesn't mean you aren't smart.

6. Your age doesn’t define you.

In a way, I guess it does, but for the most part, age is just a number. Your opinion is still valid at 15 just like it is at 35. Falling in love at 18 isn't impossible just like it's not at 48. Age just limits your physical rights like voting and drinking; it doesn't limit your worth.

7. Your daily calorie intake doesn't define you.

If we redirected the energy we use worrying about and fixating on how many calories we eat in a day to something useful, cancer would be cured.

Your age, GPA, and weight are just numbers and that’s that.