It matter's how you feel inside.
I had this need to be recognized for things I did. I dont know if this is because that is how I got my attention when I was at home as a child of seven or not.
Look at me, I am cooking, cleaning, helping with homework, taking kids to there sport stuff, I just go, go , go. But I am turning it around, I use to think I had to do this, nope, I dont........ I dont feel like I have to do it anymore, I have taken alot of pressure off of myself, and if certain things dont get done, I dont care, I know at the end of my day, I have done the best that I can do. Even if that best was just sitting and doing nothing for a whole weekend.
People's opinions of me are meaning less and less to me, because I have become happy inside myself for things that I accomplish, and I also without sounding to forward am pretty dam good at it.