After watching the final oprah show, i have been thinking a lot about 1 of the life-lesson she discussed: that people need recognition from other people.
Off course, everyone needs to be loved and all kinds of issues stem from not being loved: but i have been questioning myself how far will i go for recognition from friends, work??
It is funny that recognition from my family doesn't come into the calculation. I already feel so at home there and recognized as my own person that i don't need the attention there, because i already get it with being myself.
But at other aspects in my life, i am indeed striving for that recognition: do they like me, do they like what i am saying,etc,etc?
offcourse in a ideal "I-am-so-confident-happy-go-lucky-kinda-person'- world, i would not need that kind of acknowledgement but the truth is, as oprah said, everybody needs it.
So i am trying to apply this to my everyday life, since i do believe also in the other oprah-classic : "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" ; so if i recognize and acknowledge the people around me and the efforts they make for me, i might get it back as well.
Let's hope so .....'love can change the world', right....???
