I have a tendency to want the approval of certain others. So I looked up the word. After reading several definitions, here's my own:
Approval - 1. something given by another (like a blessing; in fact, it is blessing); 2. to be satisfactory or pleasing to another.
#1 is objective; #2 is subjective - and yet, both give tremendous insight into a root problem: I won't be pleasing and satisfactory at all times. Also, I won't always be given approval. Now, I'm talking on the human level. I will not please everybody all the time; I will fail others at some point. That's a given. The other side of the coin is that others can not give me what I need all the time; they will fail me at some point. This, too, is a given. Here's another fact to face: I do not know when the failures and disappointments will come; I just know they will. This is truth! And truth will set you free. But, like all truth, before it can do me any good, it has to be believed and accepted thankfully.
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