Musings on Life Series

All of us as human beings look for support and attention from our family and friends. It is a natural reaction for all of us but why do we do look for support and attention? Because we look for emotional validation. Emotional validation is recognizing someone’s feelings and acknowledging them. We want attention, a little of pity for what emotions or trouble we go through in our day along with understanding and recognition for whatever emotions we feel. When we narrate our daily happenings to a closed one, we feel relaxed when we release our stacked up emotions for the day or it when we habit of writing a journal / diary everyday narrating what happened followed by 5 things we are grateful for every day. People complain because their dissatisfaction reaches the maximum limit they could take. If we feel we can no longer tolerate our dissatisfaction we attempt to verbalize our dissatisfaction as nagging, whining and complaining to our closed ones. If a particular situation is in our...