Insecurities

Valerie Arce

Indigo K. Bethea

Sociology

April 8, 2012

Insecurities

What happens when you pour water down a cracked cup? Regardless of how continuously you fill it, it will continue to leak. It will never be able to hold the water inside. This rationale applies to us humans with insecurities, no matter how intensely you support them; they will continue yearning for more immediate support. Low self-esteem and insecurities turn us into cracked cups; we become in a renewable need for approval and acceptance from others as we fail to accept ourselves from an internal aspect. Unfortunately, insecurities become a widespread commodity affecting our understandings of who we are and helping us become emotionally dependent on others to an irritating extent.

Our world today succeeded in allowing our emotional brain to take over our cognitive thinking, thus making us helpless in the face of the things that we desire the most. Consider behavior as, how desperate you may get for a Facebook review or a Twitter mention, early morning text message check, buying exorbitant outfits, etc. These behaviors reflect being emotionally dependent on sources that are external. The major throwback of self-reassurance is the fact that it only becomes more addicting and very hard to control. Furthering it more in detail, as the media continues to show a model version of perfection, others will try harder and harder to become perfect and as the model of perfection revolutionizes it makes it impossible for others to reach perfection and anyone who stops trying to be perfect only begin to feel like they couldn’t accomplish what they expected to accomplish it thus making them become more insecure and now have a lower self esteem. In a lonely night where silence and crickets are your main audience, all you really have is an internal understanding of who you are. If that isn’t healthy and sufficient enough, insecurities become the soul force of pain, only hurting your self-acceptance....