Everyone wants to be well-liked... No matter how much one can say he/she doesn't care what the world view of him/her... At the end, we'll still try to do things that somehow more or less trying to please someone...
This is why praises work so well!
Anyone who receives a praise will definitely have the feel-good feeling no matter it's true or false... As long as it is soothing to the ear, we'll be beaming away!
And we'll always try our best to earn these praises, thus we strive to gain popularity from everyone... For mild cases, we don't mind some small sacrifices here and there to gain for such acceptance.
However, for some seriously praise-starved people, they could go to the extent of pleasing others till they lost themselves along the way... They no longer know what they want or what they should do for themselves anymore... Their lives are revolved around the people they tried so hard to gain recognition from... Trying so hard to be accepted... In other words, lose themselves along the way...
What made up of us then?
It's...
Our opinions;
Our own way of doing things;
Our own set of moral values;
Our principles;
Our past and present;
Our ambitions;
And etc...
Although I agree that the people around us DO play a part of influencing us... It should of a small degree only... We shouldn't be made up of the expectations that others had on us... It should be made up of what WE want for ourselves...
However, coming to know what we want for ourselves is not an easy process... We need alot of trips and falls along the way to make up what we are today...
Therefore, all I can say is that, for my case, I haven't had enough of these lessons in life to be sure of what I want at the end of the road...
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