Personal Narrative Essays: Attention Seeking

Attention Seeking, sometimes we do it and we don’t even know we are doing it. Are you doing it and why?
Sometimes we act instinctively and think our behavior is normal until we reflect on what we are doing. I was considered a troubled teen. Funny enough, no one seemed to ask why. Maybe you’re not like me and maybe you are. My parents, as great as they are (in their way) ways didn 't pay much if any attention to me growing up. They were busy trying to create ‘a better life us’. We all do the best we can with what we have. What they failed to realize was that they were missing some fundamentals that we needed. We didn 't need stuff, although who doesn 't like stuff. We needed them and their time and understanding.
When I became a teenager this lack of attention really set in. Although I didn 't really want their attention anymore, I needed it to help teach me what I loved and could love about myself. We all need attention especially when

It is a behavior that demonstrates to people you are looking for something. I am not saying don 't stand out or be loud and proud. I believe now, had I taken some time to think, had I taken some time to ask myself what I wanted and why I could have channeled my behavior and all that energy into something different. My behavior taught me it was nice to get noticed. I was teaching myself it didn 't matter why people like me, it was more that they just liked me. To be liked is all we want sometimes and it hurts when people ignore us or don 't notice that we matter. But bad attention is still bad. Had I found a mentor or an adult who I looked up to this would have made a world of difference. I look back and think, maybe instead of getting attention from men or as I like to say it ‘getting good at men’ I could have enjoyed some other aspects of life that would have instilled courage, confidence and maybe another kind of behavior that would have lead me to believe I was