Admiring Myself & Not Using People As Mirrors, or Combating Loneliness
My greatest problem is I need people too much. I derive my self-worth from how other people picture me. And this isn't just a physical thing -- many people remonstrate with the people who derive their self-worth from their physical appearance, because it's a much more obvious issue, but they don't realise that there's a whole sea of people who do the same but with their personalities and their ambitions. In fact, it's normal to derive your self-worth from whether people respect your personality and your ambitions. This is what social media is predicated on; this is how social media works so well in 2014. People used to wage war against magazines for preying upon the physical self-esteem issues of teenagers, but they don't see that now it's moved into our own hands; we now constitute the social media that preys upon the internal self-esteem issues of all people. I want people to think I'm intelligent; I want people to think I'm funny; I want people ...