they say there are two kinds of people: those who admit to their insecurities and those who lie about their insecurities. after four decades, i have yet to meet someone who, once comfortable in my presence, would not admit to at least some form of doubt or uncertainty over his/her abilities. it would seem to me then that insecurity (as much as hope and faith and longing) belongs to the natural order of things. and yet so many individuals continue to expend so much valuable energy attempting to conceal their obvious anxieties. i suppose that we, in western societies, still tend to treat the public disclosure of one's insecurities as a sign of weakness or instability. and so we indirectly encourage the suppression of entirely ordinary expressions of insecurity that make up such an integral component of the human condition. how many lives have been ruined by the scourge of doubt and the plague of uncertainty? how many persons have failed to reach their true potential owing to the bane of unsustainable pressure and the burden of unreasonable expectations? and for the record, i fully concede that i, too, am wholly guilty of creating this bane and this burden for others on more than a few occasions in the not-so-distant past. shame.
"getting on top is easy, staying on top is hard." - anonymous
difficult subject, strong message: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMXnX_vNGTM
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"welps".. too bad you forgot
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