When you please others in hopes of being accepted, you lose you self-worth in the process.
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It is definitely somewhat a crutch of feeling that you have to please others in order to be accepted.
My whole journey has been about self-acceptance.
Acceptance is different than apathy. It is important to strive to be your best self, your healthiest, most productive, joyful self. But that is going to be a different answer to everyone.
When you truly give up trying to be whole through others, you end up receiving what you always wanted from others.
You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.
If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.
When you stand alone and sell yourself, you can't please everyone. But when you're different, you can last.
Accept yourself and expect more from yourself.
I've been surrounded by a lot of people who felt that external success would result in them feeling good about themselves. But it just seems extremely unfulfilling to me.
Once you get rid of the idea that you must please other people before you please yourself, and you begin to follow your own instincts - only then can you be successful. You become more satisfied, and when you are, other people will tend to be satisfied by what you do.