It is amazing how deep the need for attention can spread itself. You would think that humans would have learned by now, that reaching outside for approval and legitimacy is a guaranteed failed endeavour.
If we don’t sense legitimacy inside ourselves, there is NOTHING that can give it to us, no matter how many twists and turns we put our social identity through. Truly a deep dive into the bottomless pit of dis-satisfaction.
We are taught to look outside ourselves for these things, or at least NOT taught to find the source inside ourselves. NO amount of support or acceptance can fill the emptiness found inside ourselves.
This is why a despondent teenager cannot be saved by parents, friends, or even a therapist.
And all the while, the answer is right inside each one of us.
Until we re-connect with our inner fullness, the sucking device we use to grasp for approval will just continue sucking the life out of our relationships, with no end to the dis-satisfaction we feel inside.
Such a pitiful situation!
Find the fullness inside!!!
Reality is Dharma 