The day you seek validation is the you accept a submissive role on a downhill journey.
Compromising our selves for the sake of acceptance is a form of suicide that can only be damaging to our mentality as well as our physical bodies. There is no secret to a perfect life, for perfection is nonexistent... BUT the secret to living life is "shutting up and speaking louder." Shutting up the noise of "am I good enough," "am I pretty enough," and "am I making people happy." If you ask yourself any question that starts with "am I," the answer every time will be NO you are not.
For if you are weak enough to ask the question, you are not strong enough to have the answer. If you knew thy own self, then you'd have the answer without even asking. Our consequence is that one friend we never are nice to. We have an advantage giving to us to separate mockery and transparency but we never use it, imagine a world were we listen to a voice that knew the truth that knew the outcome or at least knew most of it... USE your consequence, awaken that force that drives your inner being to master life and conquer your fear.
The separation of yourself is mass destruction; hell is living with multiples of yourself because you do not know who you want to be, so you pick emotions and characteristics based of your mood of the day. Letting your emotions control your life gets you nowhere but in a world of pity, because everyone sees you're fundamentally unhappy, and if they do not yet, they will eventually. The journey to bettering thyself is a journey that takes lots of maturity, sacrifice, and passion. Eagerness to get to know yourself brings no hurt, only happiness. Bettering yourself is surrendering to your past, your present, and your future. Giving knowledge of yourself to yourself creates magnitudes of real self worth; we often times lie to ourselves or strip ourselves of certain truths we think we can not handle, but we are degrading ourselves in doing so.
There is a difference in knowing your weakness and accepting your weakness, for knowing gives you an opportunity to open the door for help, but accepting your weakness not only shuts the door, but locks it... The admiration for thy own self is so hard for us to do sometimes that we'd rather admire another person, which is the birth of jealousy and resentment. The only cure for resentment is to "grow the hell up." A stagnant lifestyle holds no purpose, and a life without purpose holds no life. Making growth should never come easy but it should always be something to strive for. If you don't know that you don't know yourself, then you'll find out before it is too late, and you should use that revelation as an opportunity to commit to growth.
