There was something becoming an extremely obvious fact…

I was hooked on checking the lounge, not once but several times a day. I had become more bold at posting more regularly so I had to check to see if there were any responses to my posts. Why was I so obsessed? I all comes down to wanting to feel acknowledges, to feel a part of something, to feel that I meant something, and to help alleviate the feeling of loneliness that usually haunts me each day.

In his book, “How to Win Friends and Influence People”, Dale Carnegie comes up with a base premise that I am beginning to believe is a fact that touches all of us, we as humans need to feel important. We need to feel that we are acknowledged and that we are not just walking through life invisible. I know this from a personal point of view because I have spent most of my life trying to fight this feeling. Yet no mater how much I try to tell myself it doesn’t matter if I am thought about, it really truly does.

It takes so very little to make someone feel important or thought of. A simple compliment can turn around a bad day for someone.