Mind Your Own Business

Mind your own business, means refrain from meddling in other people's affairs.

It’s often tempting to get involved in other people’s private conversations, lives, and problems. However, interrupting or entangling yourself with personal dramas that don’t directly affect you can be both unhelpful to the parties concerned and damaging to your own mental health. You will be happier and earn more respect from your peers if you learn when and how to mind your own business. Minding your own business doesn’t mean evading responsibility or ignoring the world around you. It simply means knowing when it’s best to avoid interfering.

 Hank Williams had a popular song a long time ago that spoke the sentiment for many people.  It was called mind your own business.  Here are a few of the words… 

If the wife and I are fussin', brother that's our right
Cause me and that sweet woman's got a license to fight
Why don't you mind your own business
(Mind your own business)
Cause if you mind your business, then you won't be mindin' mine.

Mindin' other people's business seems to be high-toned
I got all that I can do just to mind my own
Why don't you mind your own business
(Mind your own business)
If you mind your own business, you'll stay busy all the time.

Most of the time I don’t mind people knowing my business.  It’s when I’m up to no good that I mind.  One day a small boy was sitting on a park bench eating one chocolate bar after another when an old man walked over to him, shaking his head, and  said “Son, eating all that sugar is not good for you. It will give you acne, rot your teeth and make you  fat!”  The small boy looked over at the elderly gentleman and said, “My grandpa lived to be 107  years old!”  “From eating six chocolate bars at a time?” asked the old man.  “No,” replied the boy,  “from minding his own business.”