… I think all my internal work I’ve done has shown that it isn’t love. Love from the outside world isn’t love. It’s more like you’re addicted to that validation, that attention. It’s not real. There’s no intimacy. There’s no exchange of intimacy. Real love is a discussion of intimacy. Love from fans is adoration. You must remember it’s part of the job. It doesn’t mean anything. At the end of the day, are those people going to be at my side when I’m 80 years old? Probably not. These thoughts help me see that it means nothing.
It took over 12 years of recovery to understand that. I had to look at what I was looking for on the outside and say, what am I not getting internally that I’m trying to get from other people? My career, money, attention, all of that… I…
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