I spent so much of my life trying to get people to like me, without ever stopping to ask myself: Do I even like them?
Living your best life starts when you stop treating social interactions like an audition where you are desperate for a callback. Flip the script. Start protecting your energy and evaluating whether the environments and people you are around actually align with your deepest values. You aren't for everyone, and everyone isn't for you. And that is incredibly freeing.