I Feel Alone

[c=#003BB2]Take every stereotype that babyboomers have about millennials, turn them all on their heads, and tweak that collection of thoughts just a bit. The result will be a fairly good description of yourself. You are no attention hog. That said, you may have had negative experiences opening up to people you are close to in the past. That is their fault, not yours. Hopefully at least some of them learn and change their ways. We all have much to learn in life.[/c]

It sounds as though you may have had that experience early on in your life. Like, maybe a parent thought you just wanted attention when you opened up to them. If that happened, it might have given you the feeling of being invalidated, and led to a belief in you that you're not worthy of having other people listen to you, consider you, value you. After all, if someone close to you assigned to your opening up to them, something that served THEIR needs instead of yours, how important could your true feelings be to them. (I don't know if any of this is true for you. Does it feel true?)

That's normal.. People who frown on attention seeking are just total pricks anyway

I'm a little the same I wish I wasn't it's healthy to open up sometimes just really hard finding the right person you can be honest with

Of course you want attention. Most people want attention. Even more so when there's something on our minds.

If someone thinks less of you for needing some of their attention, then, maybe they aren't deserving of so much of yours.

Feb. 28/17
9:45 pm
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