Do you do worry about what people think of you?  

I am so glad you have learned to love yourself. I am also not sure if it is age or just learning to be comfortable with yourself and learning to love yourself. Maybe it takes us so long to do this sometimes that it does not happen until we are older.

I agree that being bold can raise your self esteem and that is so good for you. Worrying is never good for you but sometimes it hits and can be so hard to get rid of.

I have come to the conclusion that worrying about what other people think is one of the best to get rid of and you can only gain from it.

Thank you for best response...I will show my friend this! I will have to thank her too!

I agree that if you get concerned about people analyzing you it distracts you from being you. Well said. I think dancing in a grocery store would be fun.
It took me many years to learn to just be me as my mother was obsessed with what other people thought and brought me up with a fear of other people judging me.
Now I have learned that it does not matter what other people think. My mother was a strange person. I think some of it came from being married in a foreign country and being criticised by her in laws instead of supported. She was born in England and came out to Australia as a war bride so she was totally separated from her family and way of life and did not have a happy time out here. She tried to bring me up to be invisible. I had trouble breaking the bonds.

This is one of the fun parts of getting old. There has to be some good points to it cause there are lots of other things about getting old that are not fun.

Yes the youth do seem to regard us as not mattering. I think this all comes from the cult of individuality. No one matters but the individual. I think it was a shame that someone discovered the ego and made such a big thing out of it.