Original Advice
“DONT: Chase applause when you actually want affection.”
Stop Performing, Start Being Chosen
You keep feeding the crowd and starving yourself. You collect compliments like trophies, then go home to an empty feeling you refuse to name. You ask, “Did you see me?” when what you really mean is, “Will you stay?” Applause is loud, but it never holds you. Attention floods you, then drains away. Affection lingers. You keep trading permanence for volume.
You know how to light up a room. You know how to win the room. But winning is different from being wanted. You perform the brightest, boldest version of yourself, then wonder why no one touches the quiet, unlit corners. You train people to love your highlight reel and ignore your soft, unedited parts. Confusing being admired with being loved keeps you surrounded, but not held.
Cosmic Context
You are a Leo: the Sun wrapped in skin, born visible, born radiant. Your lesson is to let your light warm the few who come close, not blind the many who never will.
Action
──────Refuse one performance; ask one person to stay anyway.
✨ You are allowed to want love more than applause. ✨