Sometimes, I am intrigued by people's behaviour. It is full of different shades of gray. People that I know, people that have been associated with me at some time in my life or people that I've become familiar with recently or people that you just happen to see around you, all of them form some kind of opinion about you based on their first impressions.
Human mind is all the time either approving or disapproving of incidents,values,things and everything else that it can sense. This makes me think ,no conclude that human mind is in a perennial state of judgement. I am talking about judging people here.
How many of us have not tried to form an impression of an individual the first time that we noticed them. I have been trying to until recently! Now I am trying to relinquish that urge to judge people.
Especially during one s adolescent or college years, its a matter of self image. Everybody is trying to protray themselves as "cool". In doing so their original self gets shadowed under this desperate attempt to outshine others. We as adolescents are trying hard to identify ourselves with certain "cool" personality traits.
In short you are deriving your sense of worth based on other people's opinions. If you constantly do so, then your happiness is taken away not by people who are judging you but you are giving them the power to do so.
Believe me, if you are able to relinquish this uncontrollable desire to seek approval for everything you do from people, that will be the first step towards the salvation of your soul.