Seek your own approval, noone elses approval.
I'll tell you a harsh truth now - if you seek the path of personal development, you're not going to get much in the stakes of approval from other non-seekers. They're usually quite heavily ingrained in the socially conditioned expectations they've experienced all life - which normally doesn't include personal development - and they only want to approve that which they recognise within themselves, so they feel some sense of peace with what they have chosen. Acceptance isn't a part of the average socially accepted ideal.
If you approve of what you are, that is the only approval you really need. Take satisfaction in this and develop pride in the fact that you have become what you have chosen to be and not a pale shadow of your surrounding influences.
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