I was reading a James Taylor interview recently and this part really stood out: "I tend to advise young people that if they want to be free, they have to be able to tolerate loneliness to a certain extent."
like the people who want you to give into their bullshit, peer pressure, and manipulation...The people that expect you to know your place and be who THEY want you to be...you can be free of those all that shit if you can just tolerate the fact that some people (maybe even ALOT of people) are going to ditch you and judge you for not giving into what THEY want..