people need to feel significant.
i don't think many people realize that, but think about everything about your life that makes you happy, and more often than not they'll be something that makes you feel significant. whether it's something you do well, people you know, people who know you... all of it makes you feel as if you matter. it's essential to feeling content, satisfied... happy.
nothing like flying across the pacific alone and starting right in the middle to make that realization so poignant, so sharp.
and to feel frustration and pressure on top of that... it's pretty intense, that much i can tell you.
it helps to know you have home - the people there, the recognition there. but, see, the pacific's kinda... big. and wide.
and home's kinda far away.
i want significance here, and i want it now.
or at least i want more.
i sound like a spoilt brat, but this's my blog and i can do what i want. hah.
Thursday 4 October 2007
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why do you say you don't think many people realize that?
:)
the older one gets, chances are they are gonna realize that they want to be significant, subconsciously or consciously. maybe they'd say it in a different way, 'oh i wish i was liked by my colleagues', or 'oh i hope my children will see me as a good parent'.. although wished or hoped or prayed in different ways and words, they all point to wanting to be significant.
I wrote a huge reply for you on my blogger.
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