You don’t need to have everyone else jump with you if you want to jump.

You may have a need and a habit to want to make everyone else agree with your personal choices before you feel free to do it yourself. If it’s legal, you can do it without others’ approval, let me assure you. If it’s your personal life choice, you don’t need public support for it.

What is authentic and important is the sum of things you do despite social support and approval. The stuff that makes you ‘uncool’ in the eyes of people in general, and cool in the eyes of your true friends and lovers. (I don’t mean your LOYAL friends, but your true, genuine friends and lovers. People who are NOT your true friends can still hold strong loyalty to you.) The stuff that makes you who you are is the stuff you’d risk losing your family’s support and your friend’s love over to do it or to have it. Your true friends are the ones you’d lose others for to have them in your life – if you believed they’d have you in theirs.

Don’t hang onto public approval to go after what you want. You’ll wait forever, as there’ll never be a time when everybody agrees that your choices for yourself are the best possible.

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