Most people will not care about stuff related to YOU unless in some way it benefits THEM; remember this.

I mutter "No one cares" often to myself, especially as I drive around. It's not totally true, but it's truer than we admit.

I think I've written a variation of this a few times -- i.e. most people tend to be full of shit, and most people tend to prioritize what they want to prioritize. Those are just natural facts of life, and definitely of mid-adulthood, and I don't think you can really "get past them" so much as understand, embrace, and try to work within them. Once people…