I don’t look for total approval from others per say as much as I look for someone whose opinion or position is one I profoundly find substantial or one whom a lot of people find significant, to approve of me as a person. I feel like that substantiates that I properly exist, belong, and have a positive purpose as such.
It kind of like receiving an award… the higher on the food chain, and the more selective the entity granting the award, the more weight or power it carries behind the statement it is (attempting) to make. Obviously, receiving an award that is also given to 20% of the qualifying population on a monthly basis is less moving than receiving one that is is only given to less than 1% of the qualifying population on an annual basis.
Lets put it into even more laymens terms:
Which is better?