My comment: This made me think quite hard. If what other people think about one is an abstraction --- which it surely is, because no-one has all the knowledge anyone else has about oneself --- then what one thinks oneself of what others think about one is abstraction squared. That is, it's an abstraction of an abstraction. That ought to make it a bit easier to bear! 😀 This is another awesome post Linda! ❤️💓💕 See Lana Del Rey on Saturday Night Live . See Linda Faludi's recent Community post : Photo by Marianne Rosenstiehl, 1984 Quote from "According to... David Lynch, A Jot Publishing, 2007 - Strange or not? The 1979 interview https://youtu.be/uHwqhEEyF5Y - Genius or a sick man? 1986 interview https://youtu.be/rDXRjKW5W_s - What if a movie "doesn't make sense"?, 2005 https://youtu.be/Drq0whygb2M - How to experience the movies according to DL, 2006 https://youtu.be/mW65Taemqks - Random access, dream logic, feel-thinking, 2005-2017 https://youtu.be/L2xT