As long as you worry about how others perceive you, they can enslave you. Only when you no longer seek affirmation from outside yourself can you truly become the master of your own being. When you are truly strong and abundant within, the fact that others ignore you, reject you, or do not respond to you will not easily lead you to self-denial or the level of feeling unloved. In fact, self-confidence is allowing myself to be denied; you may think I am not good, but that does not mean I am not good. That is your judgment, and I do not need to agree with it.