If your peace depends on everyone liking you, you’ve handed out too many remotes.

Needing everybody’s approval means anybody can change your mood by having an opinion. The arithmetic is unforgiving: the more people whose view counts, the more of your days get decided by somebody you barely know. Wanting to be liked is ordinary and not the problem here. Making your calm depend on all of it is what costs you.

Pick the handful of people whose opinion you genuinely want to earn, and let the rest be weather. When something stings this week, check whether that person is on your short list.