The Importance of Clinging

Before the urge to become, which I think of as like an urge to make something out of a situation, there's some action or thought that's come into being. And before that comes clinging. This clinging can be too often it's to an identity of some kind. The necessary condition for clinging to arise is craving. So in order for me to have a craving for attention, for example, there needs to have been a feeling tone. Now let's in this case say maybe that feeling tone was previously, I got praised for something and now I want that and that felt good. Right? In this stage, there's this feeling of good, you know, a pleasurable feeling.