Importance Of Validation

In life, we often look to others for validation, our family, friends, or even strangers. Throughout life, as we evolve, validation plays a prominent role in all of our lives. From a young age we are taught to see approval and validation from others. In fact, as children, we are taught to look to our parents for a smile or a nod of reassurance and approval for our choices. This teaches us that throughout life, we should look to others for their validation for confirmation. From a young age we are taught to compulsively seek others approval, however, when evaluating why we seek validation, we find that validation and approval is found within. Growing up, I always felt out of place. When everyone else was running around in the hot, sun, thinking of nothing, but the logistics of the game they were playing. I would be sat on the curb, wondering what it was that made them so much different from me. To me, it was if they all knew something that I didn’t know, like they were all apart of some inside joke that I just didn’t get. I would sit, each day when my mind wasn’t being filled with the incessant chatter of my teachers mindlessly sharing what they were told to, in the hot, humid air of the late spring and wonder what I was doing wrong. See, my discontent

One large example of this is social media. Beyond networking, social media serves no other purpose than to post and share with others what you are doing, your choices. Most people do use Instagram or Twitter for networking, we use to indirectly receives peoples feedback. In fact, recent updates has given twitter the option to create polls. This allows the user to post options between two similar items, where your followers or sometimes strangers can vote which one they think. As our modern society progresses, it becomes easier and easier for us to gain validation and approval from our