Does giving love mean you truly see others?
When we feel love is it because we feel seen? Or is it how others make us feel?
What is interesting is no one person can make us feel any specific way. It all comes down to how we interpret what they said or did.
A colleague can think they are listening, giving feedback, and doing the right thing in their relationship to us, but we might take it the wrong way and interpret the interaction as one where we did not feel heard.
Every interaction we had is all up to our own interpretation.
You could have spent time with a friend or neighbor and come home and tell your husband that it was fun, you got deep, and you feel so connected to her. Your friend might tell her husband how annoying you were and that you talked the entire time (and you would never know she felt that way).
Again all up for interpretation.
So why do we spend so much time worrying about what other people think? Do we just want them to like us? Do we just want to feel seen and validated?
If so, then start with you. Start with looking at what you think of you! Do you like what you see? Are you listening to you?
Often we avoid taking the time to look within because we might not always like what we see. The sooner you start to like and even love you for all that you are, the less you will look to others for love and validation. YOU are the only one that is in control of how others make you feel.
