Meanings at 26.

We seek appreciation from strangers. As if all of our emotions and actions depends on them. On what they perceive  what we should be, according to their personal needs. On what they feel like saying, how they would act to our say and decisions.

We expect them to react to our own assumption. We crave for that acknowledgment. To feel belonged, to be a part of them, to be accepted. We try so hard to be understood, too hard, and fail miserably most of the time.  

Once we're no longer relevant. Once, they give us the cold shoulder, and treat us with less respect and dignity, our life shattered into pieces of broken soul and we desperately try to look for a reason; something, someone to blame. 

Life, is how you control your emotions. Pull yourself together and stop hanging on that delusional rope from those strangers that you think will make you whole. They won't. Most won't be there for you. Most won't even care, to give a second look at how you're really doing. 

Would they be bothered to ask..

How was your day?

How have you been? 

How do you feel?

Anything bothering you?

Anything I can help you with?

Are you alright?

Are you hurt? Where does it hurt?

Do you need a hug? 

Would they be bothered to say...

I'm here for you if you need anything.

It's okay. Everything will be alright.

You mean so much to me. I'm thankful to have you in my life.

I'm proud of you.

Congratulations.

Happy Birthday. 

So it's a "Yes" or a "No" for you?

Once you accept yourself; your flaws, your past, your status, your background, your car, your house, your family.. Then there's not even an inch of requirement for you to feel like you're being left out, for you to want those strangers' words of  acknowledgement, and their approval for what you feel. 

Because you have already accepted yourself. 

Before you you even demand for someone to ask you those questions, and expect someone to show you how much they care, have you asked someone today..?

How was your day?

How have you been? 

How do you feel?

Anything bothering you?

Anything I can help you with?

Are you alright?

Are you hurt? Where does it hurt?

Do you need a hug? 

Have you said to someone..

I'm here for you if you need anything.

It's okay. Everything will be alright.

You mean so much to me. I'm thankful to have you in my life.

I'm proud of you.

Congratulations.

Happy Birthday. 

Stop expecting. Start doing. 

If everyone is like us, and we're like them, then we'll be deserted human beings in wasted in emotions we shouldn't be feeling in the first place. 

Thank you for calling me. asking me how I've been.

Thank you for texting me, letting me know that you've remembered me.

Thank you for seeing me, and spend a bit of your time with me, knowing that I'm still worth hanging out with.

Thank you for great words of wisdom, giving me a sense of courage and hope.

Thank you for saying, "Happy Birthday", it means as much as the world to me.

Thanks Herline, for the cute photo. ;)