Consciousness And The Need To Feel Loved By Elina St-Onge

It’s in the human blood to want to love and be loved whether it’s loving your parents and siblings to being in love with your significant other. It’s an essential need in order for humans to live. One cannot go past life without feeling that sensation with that one or special people. It is a necessity for us to receive love because it makes us feel wanted and it gives us a feeling that nothing else can replicate. Both articles had a great idea behind it. To begin with, the first article “Self-Consciousness and the Need to Feel Loved”, written by Elina St-Onge, was a short story of a kid, the writer, who felt that self-consciousness was often brought by wanting to feel loved. She talks about how her younger self had a low self-esteem and as a result of that she’d get teased and bullied. Eventually her “friends” left her alone for cooler people, as she identifies them. She wanted change and she got what she wanted. She’d wear makeup and take care of her appearance; that brought her attention, new friends, and even love interests. The way she thought about it was if she changed her appearance, she’d receive love

Being loved makes one feel good about themselves. It gives them as sense of intimacy between them and the person loving them. Now to love someone is completely different. It’s a beautiful mix of many different emotions from sadness and eeriness to adrenaline and excitement. If you really love someone else, your love for them will be felt by both you and your partner or significant other just like how it was stated in the first article “True love is never to be contained, it is to be shared through our own completeness..” (St-Onge 1). She is saying that one shouldn't keep that emotion to themselves. Share it! Let others experience the way you love, a one of a kind feeling the other person will feel. Overall, it’s a beautiful thing to show to others one way or