Jan 3 • General discussion
The opposite of confidence isn't insecurity. It's shame.
We shrink from expressing what we genuinely enjoy because we fear judgment.
We hesitate to try because we doubt the outcome—as if certainty were ever promised.
We carry guilt from past mistakes and punish ourselves by dimming instead of shining.
But here's the truth:
We can never be certain of an outcome. We can only be certain of our effort.
And effort—win or lose—always yields something valuable: a life experience, a story worth telling, a lesson worth learning.
Confidence isn't knowing you'll succeed. It's knowing you'll be fine either way.
Shed the shame of what you enjoy.
Release the guilt from what you've done.
Stop requiring certainty before you move.
Try anyway. Fail anyway. Live anyway.
That's confidence.
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The opposite of confidence isn't insecurity. It's shame.
