If you rely on the approval of others – do you still rely on yourself?

Is this your opinion or their’s opinion, then?

You espouse certain beliefs, which you read somewhere or found out by yourself. Now, if you need someone to validate them – are you not invalidating your own perspective?

 

Why do you need the validation of others? Wait. It’s a wrong way of putting it.

It’s not why you need it. It’s that you need it. More then you need to discover the reality.

You just want to feel secure, with your little beliefs, and your little circle of like-minded. You want to choose people you “respect” and tell the world who you think is wise and who you think is knowledgeable. And you want others to do the same to you. You want them to validate you. Your goal is validation all along.

 

Most of us don’t care about the reality.

Most of us don’t even care about the “success” — even if we say we do.

We only care about getting validated. Patted in the shoulder.

“you are right”

“that is correct”

“keep at it

“this is the way to live”

 

I am not saying your personal discoveries are objectively more valid.

I am saying that what you learn from others is ALWAYS a LIE.

You can trust your car to get you from place A to B and you can trust your DVD to play you your favourite TV series…

But psychologically – you can only ever trust yourself.

PHILOSOPHICALLY?

SPIRITUALLY?

You can only ever trust yourself.

It’s your fucking life.

And yet you want OTHERS TO APPROVE OF YOUR WAY OF LIVING.

Why do you care if your trivial little “rules of success” are validated by a bunch of likewise conditioned fools?

Those are YOUR rules. Not their’s. Who cares if it works for them too? It doesn’t change ANYTHING. Because it has to work for you.

 

I don’t care about your recommendations. I don’t care who recommends you. It’s all a lie. By showing how you rely on others — you just showed how you don’t rely on your own fucking self.