The truth is the truth. Follow it. People’s words are all opinions, calling you to their falsehood. Why should you listen to them? On the off chance that they are correct? Well, isn’t the truth obvious to you? Maybe they have some new information that can refute the truth, the deceiver tells you. Is the truth such that can be refuted by any information at all? No.
Let not their empty words and promises cast doubts and aspersions in your heart. What you have will always be stronger than their desires. After all, they admit to it themselves: that they only follow their own desires. Are you really that stupid then to follow someones false desires? What do you then want to die on: the truth, or someone’s desires?
A lot of them follow their own desires. Is that surprising? No. That is actually quite expected. You know yourself how hard it is to follow the truth, and how the deceiver casts such spurious doubts in your heart. Is it a surprise then that most of mankind are astray? They make fun of you because of your small size, saying that we are arrogant. Is not he arrogant who follows his own desires and refuses to see the clear evidences? The one’s who laugh and pat each other on the back, simply because they believe in their stereotypes and prejudices?
No, set your very nature to be righteous and upright. Let not their worldly accolades intimidate or deceive you. The truth is the truth. Mankind cannot change it.