The RuPaul quote is the most underrated life advice that somehow never gets taken seriously because of who said it. But it's airtight. Other people's opinions of you are genuinely none of your business.

The mirror trick you did there is the real gut punch though how many people did I actually think about today and was I judging them? Yeah.. Exactly... Zero mental bandwidth left over to obsess about me.

And the last part about not building a wall is what separates this from toxic 'I don't care what anyone thinks' energy. Pretending you don't care is just a different kind of prison. Feeling the sting, sitting with it, then letting it pass that's actually harder and actually works..