Well, like will said, it depends on who the other is. I have a very small group of lifelong friends who are closer to me than family. I would be very concerned about how they perceive me.
But outside them, absolutely, how I see myself is vital. I don't really give a flying fuck at a rolling donut how others see me.
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Dull sublunary lovers love,
Whose soul is sense, cannot admit
Absence, because it doth remove
That thing which elemented it.
(From "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" by John Donne)
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