Decoration is a way of honouring the divine and there is much symbolism attached to this from the altar cloths in christian and wiccan religions to food for the spirits in thai bud...
Revealing a need to show honor and respect to someone while they are still alive...
A symbol of belonging, of which you have dreamed repeatedly, from which you feel rejected. How was the sense of belonging demonstrated? Was the badge given / awarded for something?...
To be decorated or to see others decorated for some heroic action suggests that you, or someone else, deserves recognition for some action but has not received it in waking life....