Sometimes all you need is a word of encouragement, a smile, someone to believe in you. Even when you feel worthless, know that isn’t true. Everyone has worth!
I’ve always been afraid of heights. Just imagining looking down over a ledge at this great abyss was enough to make me dizzy…
I have always been afraid of falling. Of failing. Of being rejected, criticized. Of being ridiculed, ignored, despised, laughed at.
I’ve always been afraid. Of heights, of spiders and bugs, of dogs, of other people, of getting hurt, of pain, of suffering…
I was born weak. Fragile. Bad eyes, bad health, bad posture… when it came to first impressions… I suffered from what folks like to call social anxiety – I just wasn’t good around people. I lived inside my head. I despised going out. I despised talking to others.
From my father, I understood that I was dumb, ugly, and a failure at everything. I understood that I was afraid of so many thing, because greatness hadn’t been bestowed upon me.
I wrote, yes, but no…
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