The desire for fame or attention is just the need for validation. I think it’s a myth that anybody acts out for attention. That is why fame usually wears off so quickly. It’s hard to stay hungry. You see these athletes orw/e stay hungry either because they love it or attention. Lebrun James wants the the attention or validation that he is better than mj. I don’t know I’m some respects you could just say love is just the need for validation in various forms.
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I don’t really watch basketball but I doubt anyone is going to top MJ for awhile.
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People claim I want attention, every time someone bothers me. I want to be left alone. They say that, because they’re the ones bothering me.
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Maybe you like to be alone all the time is because you never got attention/validation from your parents. You feel like you’ll never get it because you rarely have. What you need to come out of chronic to be alone is attention validation from your parents?
I had a good mother and absent father. I wish I had seen more of my relatives. I don’t think I ever wanted anyone’s attention.
This is interesting and it probably applies to me, although validation from my parents is never going to be forthcoming. I did do attachment repair work in therapy a few years back and it was helpful.
I’ve heard people talk about therapy/self-help work based on learning to reparent yourself (learning how to give yourself the “parenting” that you never had growing up.) I definitely could benefit from something like that but need to get into a more stable place first.
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