It's cool to be a likeable person. I mean walking into a room full of people waving and smiling up to the ear at you, whispering into the ears of those next to them about your greatness and how much of a likeable person you're, with them wanting to flock around you with attempts to engage you in a conversation one way or the other while giving you an ego boost someone who's new to the room would think you were a celebrity. All these are cool when they come with a price you can afford but what if they come at costs that aren't worth the status?

In our generating of social media, people do incredibly insane things just for people to like or applaud them. They don't care if they salvages their self - respect or nullifies the things they believe in, they just go ahead and do it anyway. People who suffer from a feeling of low self-esteem or self-worth are much more prone to such unworthy sacrifices so that they would feel they are better than others, seek validation from people or want people to like them. The worse thing that can happen to a person is for them to change who they are so that people will like them, they fake who they really are to gain the benefits that comes with such things and when they get drawn into this, they are pressured to maintain that false image for as long as they can. Eventually it falls off as nothing really lasts forever and their true selves whom they loathe so much that they couldn't put in the necessary work to make it better is exposed like a fresh wound whose band-aid has fallen off..

Is being liked even something I should care about?

While it is cool to be liked or loved for who you really are, expecting people to love or like you for your true self is not something I'd recommend as you still care if people like you, just that this time it is for the right reasons. Even at that people are bound to hate you as it is impossible for everyone to love you for your true self. If unfortunately you winded up in an environment that doesn't support your kind of spirit, very few people or no one will like you and then you wish they'd understand you better. You wish that at least one person understands or loves you for who you really are. This creates a feeling of loneliness that can be difficult to cope with.

The most badass and peaceful way to live life is to not care whether people like you or not while being the truest version of yourself. The less you care what others think of you, the more peaceful and happy you are, this is because you aren't doing it for them but for your beautiful self. This also makes you become fearless and stand for what you believe in fiercely without caring what other people think. You aren't ashamed of showing your weaknesses as they do not make you insecure or feel vulnerable anymore. You do whatever the hell want, when and how you want it. You know how that feels like? To put it lightly, it helps the sun rise!!

Life is too short to worry about being liked by others or not. Just appreciate those who truly like you for the real you, and not for something else. Just keep being the person you're now while working relentlessly towards a better version of yourself. That's what this world is about, sharing love to all God's creatures before returning to Him and I don't really think a person is capable of truly loving someone else if they don't love themselves and a person cannot love themselves fully if they care what other people think of them. At the end, those who're meant to be in our lives will always find their way and those who aren't meant to be, will leave even if we wish them not to.

Stay blessed guys!

Thanks for reading.

I am fully back now and thanks to all those who wished me a happy Eid, I really appreciate it. It was really enjoyable!

Yours Layly,

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