Public opinion is a weak tyrant, compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate."
- Henry Thoreau / Walden, Economy

In my late 20's I realized I no longer wanted to live by the nickname I'd been given as a child, so I took my middle name, Harrison. Some people still called me by my childhood nickname, but it didn't matter because that was no longer how I thought of myself. Something had shifted, my opinion of myself
had changed.