IRONY: 3 a (1) : incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result.

I have always envied those who state they don't care what people think. Most of my life I have been denying, much to everyone's chagrin, that I do not care what people think of me. When life left me with nothing to worry about but myself, I realized the irony of caring about opinions of me caused people to think what I did not want them to think of me.

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