<center>Hello, my friends. how are you today? About me, I slept in my room today the entire day. I woke up at 11 in the morning. Yesterday, I was very disturbed because I felt like I lost another piece of me. I locked my room to have devotional. I realized I had enough two people who cared about me. We can never test someone who is true to us unless we don't experience solitude and being left behind. I felt so blessed. 
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Our life is like a Ferris wheel. We always encounter the ups and downs. If we are happy today, we will never know if it'll be the same when we wake up in the morning in the next day. Indeed, I tested that once the wheel is turning to the lowest level, we will be very surprised about who are those who are here for us. We should take care of that kind of people. However, relying on other people cannot make our lives secure and better. People may come and go in which we have no control. Not all the times they are here for us if we are dropped to the ground. Not all the times that they can comfort us in times of nothingness and emotionally weak. Not all the times they compliment us to be invigorated.

In these past few days, I learned that being self-confident is what we need to live life independently. Some of us can't live without the other mouth's advice, other shoulder's comfort, and even their compliments on our works and our appearances. It is great to get approvals from other people all the times, but how can we be reassured to try harder if we always seek their praises dependently? In order to move forward, we should approve ourselves first than seeking it from someone else. 

Just like a Ferris wheel, there is also ups and downs in a relationship and I must admit that I always seek my partner's compliment about me. I become upset that leads again to misunderstanding and fighting. There are times he used to compliment me by saying "nice, good, beautiful" but my mind is seeking something higher than that to be able to gain self-trust and worth. Then I can feel I was not good enough detecting those unsatisfying compliments. I become sensitive to think it's only my worth. 

Most of us are indeed seeking other people's honor to move forward and pursue our dreams. If no ones gonna praise us, we become helpless and stuck on thinking how to go through. Then we become sad and discouraged. But let's keep in our minds that God will never fill our goals if it is filled with darkness already because how can he fill a box that is already fully loaded? Instead of becoming sad and depressed by being dependent with other compliments, let's empty our boxes with negative things and fill with self-trust to allow God fill a doubled positivities. 

Don't listen to other people, but listen to yourself. Believe that you can do it because God approves you already before you approve yourself. We can't rely on other people as some of them are trying to put us down and what we seek from the people can only be sought from God 'coz He knows our worth than what we hear and experience.

Let's stop seeking the compliments from someone else for it only disappoints us if they can't. Depending on other's judgment can't help us but it can only give us the misery and feel like we are rejected. Depending on other people can break any relationship.

While we are undergoing the problems and businesses we are dealing with every day, someone has his own problems too. We should stop validating ourselves by depending their good words for us because we are not their responsibility. Instead of seeking comforts from the other people, why not from God? No matter who we are, He always knows our worth. Other people may not see it but He sees it because He knows us before we are born. We are more than the 24 karat gold. Our value doesn't come from our friends and loved one, it comes from the Lord.

Disclaimer: The illustration is original. Thanks to Joel Osteen for being an inspiration. 

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