When insecurity builds the framework for your primary way of thinking, you are constantly in survival mode without even realizing it. You look for rejection that hasn’t even happened yet. You assume that people will assume the worst about you before they even meet you or get to know you.

You jump to the conclusion that it is necessary for you to perform in order to earn approval, accolades, acceptance, affirmation, and admiration, all in a desperate yet vain attempt to fill a hole in your heart that should only be occupied by true love. You shift all your efforts toward pleasing people, even if it means sacrificing purpose.

You weren’t designed to sustain like this. Truth is, rejection hurts, but sometimes, it’s for your own good.

Music: “Safe” by Naomi Raine