They crave someone to tell them they are proud of them, that they have accomplished something.
To congratulate and shower them with positive affirmations and reassurance.
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Updated 8 years ago,July 8, 2017
Lately Ive been feeling a bit uninspired.
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My ideas flower and then slowly wilt with a lack of water and air.
I am feeling a sense of entrapment like I am owned by my insecurities.
Things that would have once never bubbled to the surface are boiling over.
Emotions, thoughts, fears, a sense of frustration for not having my shit sorted.
I have grown up into a woman that lacks a sense of acknowledgement for herself.
To dig for a glimmer of feminist hope in, lets face it, a very uncertain climate.
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I think generations of women before me have struggled with the problem of acknowledgement.
The thought that what they are doing is ok, but that they could always be doing more.
That, and the idea that they need acknowledgement from someoneelse.
They crave someone to tell them they are proud of them, that they have accomplished something.
To congratulate and shower them with positive affirmations and reassurance.
When does one stop thinking this way and finally realize thattheyare the only person that they need acknowledgement from?
When does it become less about other people and more about what is inside you?
I have packed up my life five separate times and openly accepted the challenge of the unknown.
I have felt alone, felt strange, felt depressed, uninspired.
I have met some incredible people whose sense of adventure and purpose has turned a light on inside me.
Women that continue to amaze me every time I hear from them.
Women that are living with such purpose and fearless grace that I find it often overwhelming to think about.
I feel as though these women know who they are, but I certainly dont tell them enough.
There is something to be said for that.
I, too, am one of these women.
I, too would be considered as a woman who lives her life with purpose and fearlessness.
Who strives to live.
I chose to do that.
I actively sought out these changes in my life.
Nobody else did it for me.
But one thing I know for certain, is that I will be doing something amazing.
Just like I have been every year I look back on at this time.
I will stop punishing myself.
I will stop comparing myself.
I will start acknowledging, positively reinforcing, and applauding my successes not sashaying them to the side.
Because I damn well deserve it.
