I had a student that was talking about worrying about what other people think and how he used to be paranoid, thinking that people had certain thoughts about him and I actually told him that they probably did have those thoughts, but that’s not what is most important. It doesn’t mean that those thoughts are nice thoughts, but if we understand the way that people’s minds work, we can rise above the noise. Everybody is there because they want to improve their life in some capacity and a lot of people have fragmented parts of themselves that they are either trying to integrate or run away from. Believe me that everybody has their own shit that they are dealing with, and sometimes judging other people and looking at other people‘s flaws is a strategy to avoid looking at the person in the mirror.