What if there was nothing to fix? Just be.I'm always TOO something....either too broke or too rich, too fat or too fit, too stupid or too smart, too goofy or too much of a show off....
I'm never just OK. I can never just fvcking RELAX. I can never just get a PAT on the fvcking a.ss for a job well done. NO, I have to constantly be told there's ANOTHER problem I have to fix, then when I fix that problem, they will FIND another problem, then when I fix that problem, they will FIND another problem.
Fvck this shyt! This shyt is ZAPPING my god damn energy, fvcking up my positivity, and causing serious depression!! I've been going through this shyt for 33 fvcking years and I'm getting ready to SNAPPP.
Sounds a little hippyish from the paradigm you are now--but your ego's so invested in a frame of viewing yourself as inferior and having to 'fix' yourself--which constantly reinforces the idea that 'you're not enough.'
Have you ever just sat back and enjoyed the experience of being @Tenacity? What's a pat on the back from a black woman really going to fix? Will that make you happy?--or will it just be another step down the rabbit hole of validation-chasing.
Ironically, other people's approval will come when you least need it--and by then it will pale in comparison to your own self-approval.