Having materialistic desires is fine; only those who have completely transcended their ego don’t have any. - Vex King

If you don’t prove that you’re serious about what you want to do, you can’t expect other people to be serious about it either.

What you verbalize will eventually materialize.
You have the power to talk aspects of your reality into existence.

Trauma makes us thin-skinned, overly sensitive, hypervigilant, and prone to pain. And it’s often all-encompassing, too, so our attention is focused on the pain and on desperately trying to avoid more of it.