Need for validation

Today my meditation turned my thoughts to validation. The external kind. I realized how transient and fleeting this validation is. Meditation has profoundly shifted my old need for this validation. Meditation has shown me that if I can be happy alone first and foremost, I can be happy in any circumstances. My "watching" has revealed many hidden and discarded aspect of myself. I have had to confront the ugly, the bad, and the flat out scary parts of myself. I think why more people don't meditate consistently is the fear of confrontation. I think sometimes we're running around afraid that our ugliness or smallness will show. Now for a poem....

To see

What may be.

To free

What I see.

In my mind.