Two ends on the spectrum for taking them too seriously:
- Priding yourself on being "chosen"
- Disparaging yourself for not being chosen
As soon as you stop taking them seriously, after you realize their choices
aren't respectable and are often flat-out stupid (even when they choose you), then you're more or less free. Believing their choices mean something about you, have some significance to your value as a man, holds you back and subjects you to manipulation. To a man who isn't ruled by that belief: