A lot of people my age feen for the feeling of social acceptance. That warm, treasured feeling that other people like you. That in the moment feeling that you have nothing to be worried about when it comes to the social world. That ego dominating feeling that your “popular”. But, later do they know that this feeling will soon fade away. The people you trust most will turn their backs on you. The social world will forget about you. The ones that helped you will look down at you. And that ego dominating feeling will turn into a depression. A soul shaking feeling that your alone. That everything and everyone is against you. Then one the depression sinks in you will get this awful, heart breaking, excruciating feeling in which you feel that you don’t belong anymore. That you have no life meaning. And everything breaks down. Now your thinking about the past, how wonderful it was. Wishing you never had social acceptance. Wishing you were just normal. So — what is social acceptance to you?
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Social acceptance really is an addictive thing, and I’m glad you wrote about this. People will pile all of their self-worth onto the opinions of others, and it can be devastating when that tide inevitably goes out – because people will be people. Those worries only really lose their hold on folks when they take a few steps back and remember that their worth as a person is completely static, even as everything moves around them. That realization comes with age and/or experience, but it sure can hurt along the way. I just think of it as “you can’t change what people do, only how you respond to them,” if that sentiment helps!