@clarkybateman: Don’t mistake your self-consciousness for self-awareness. To know of the negative ways you may be perceived, and succumbing to that fear by conforming to what you think will be desired by others is nothing but slavery. To act how you feel is the most authentic to you in spite of knowing how you may be perceived is true freedom. You can observe yourself from another perspective, but the moment that perspective begins to dictate who you are rather than inform you, you cease to be an individual and become a performance.