"People may not always tell you how they feel about you, but they will always show you. Pay attention."

I used to always ask people what they thought of me, or how they felt about me. Sure, I may have asked it before. And sure, you may have answered it before... But for some reason, I always had to hear it again. I told myself I needed reassurance. I told myself "it's just nice to hear."

I have come to learn that while it is true that insecurity is what makes me ask for reassurance, it's also insecurity that makes me RELY on reassurance. I couldn't function if I didn't know that I was a "good" teacher, or that I was "loved," or any of the other hundreds of things I constantly asked for affirmation on.

In the past few months, I have been working on SELF-AFFIRMATION.
     Self (n): one's own.
     Affirmation (n): the act of stating or asserting positively.
     Self-affirmation (n): the act of stating or asserting positively one's own.

I'm at a point now where I don't need to ask anyone if I'm a good person--because I am. I'm paying attention to how others show me they feel about me. I'm finally starting to not care about what others think...at least not as much. Typically, I would start listing ways I don't care here to "prove" it to my readers, but I guess you'll just have to take my word for it now. It's just a start, and there's so much more to go. So I leave you with:

"The more you learn to love your decisions, the less you need others to."