I care about what the people I respect think of me. And as far as everyone else is concerned, I care about what makes me feel comfortable. If I don't like what's been said about me, it's completely tossed aside. If I do like what's been said about me, then that's just a bonus. I do, however, care enough to keep a pleasant appearance, to have manners in public, to keep my mood swings to myself, to shave my legs, and to be a little embarrassed when my stomach growls in class.

I care a lot about what other people think of me. It governs the way I act for the most part, except when it comes to people or issues that are especially important to me. I am very aware that I cannot and do not function in society alone, so I find myself striving to make those who compose my "society" think highly of me. I don't think it's such a bad thing as long as you stay true to yourself. I don't completely change myself for others, I simply mold my views so that they groove with others, not so that they conform to them. Only when faced with a significant moral dilema do I go with my heart/mind without consideration for what other people think. And, of course, if someone has something bad to say about the people I love and hang around with, then that's just too bad - because then their opinion doesn't mean jack to me. And I hope my friends feel the same way when it comes to me. *wink*

Save a handful of close people in my life, I don't care what others think of me. One must treat their existence from their own perspective to fully understand how to function on Earth, rather than spending their life in a state of paranoia, constantly wondering if other people think poorly of them.