Rihanna doesn’t worry about otherpeople

Rihanna lives her life with “blinders” on.
The 24-year-old singer – who has courted controversy by
recording with ex-boyfriend Chris Brown and reportedly
smoking marijuana – has stopped worrying about what
other people think of her because she knows she can’t
please everyone all of the time.
She said: “Who wants to be bashed every day of their
f**king lives? That’s not fun.
“Today I could eat an apple, and ten people like it and one
will not. The next day I could do shots and five people will
like it and five won’t.
“What’s important is, you never know. You can’t do it for
the reaction because it’s never going to be the same.
“I learned to live my life with the blinders on. At one point it
was so bad, it became numb for me. It was a scary place
to be.”
Now when people say something negative, Rihanna tries to
“decompartmentalise” her feelings.
She added to Esquire magazine: “I completely shut off
from it so much, I didn’t feel anything. I didn’t feel the good
or the bad. It just didn’t matter.
“It was all façade. I put my guard up. It hurts when people
say negative stuff but you have to decompartmentalise
that. It’s not easy.”