Right, Not Popular - R. Meir Simcha Sperling - TorahAnytime.com

So, I just think it's a huge huge aside in our lives. We have to do what is right for us and our families, not what's popular. There's a very big difference between what's good and what's popular. What everyone is going to like, what everyone is going to see, what everyone is going to status about, what everyone is going to hawk about, that's one thing. Not necessarily is that a good thing. But what's good for me, what's good for my child, what's good for my relationship, what's good for my marriage, what's good for my Avodas Hashem is not necessarily what people are going to like. Maybe, right? To send my kid to get help or to send my kid to a certain school or to send my kid or set up with a certain shidduch even though people are going to say like, "What are you free you?" No, yeah. No, yeah. No. But if it's the right thing for us, then that's what we're going to do. Asher ki nili l'go. Our relationship in this world between us and Hashem is the most important thing. He is the only one we need to impress. Don't impress the people that don't care about you. Impress Hakadosh Baruch Hu who's always watching you and who cares about you the most. Right? They say the first 30 years of a person's life he's so busy making sure his image is, "How you doing?" And the next 30 years he doesn't care about his image anymore, you know, "Ah, everybody's looking. I don't care if everyone's looking." And the last 30 years he finds out that nobody was looking even in the original 30 years. Cuz nobody cares. Everyone's busy with their own life. But sometimes we do things only for the people around us. We have to be like Pinchas in a way that we're doing what's good for us, what's the right thing to do. And this comes up in so many so many different places in our lives. And make your own cheshbon hanefesh. But make sure you're doing what's right, not what's popular.