Thursday, September 6, 2012

20. Going on 14.


It’s not that I don’t act my age.

It’s that I don’t act myself.

Because I am so wrapped up in trying to control everyone else’s opinion of me, I’m not sure what my own opinions are.

Well, I am of the opinion that everyone should like me.

But other than that… I can vary my opinions, actions, habits… so that everyone will like me. Or at least, so I’ll think that everyone likes me.

And the source of this need for validation?

The belief that I, simply as myself, am not very likeable.

 

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