Remember my fear, failure, and fear of failure? I have another fear: fear of rejection. Fear of putting myself “out there,” where others can see. Fear that if I say what really goes on in my mind rather than echoing others’ opinions, people will think that I think too highly of my own opinion or that I must think I’m cooler and deeper than everyone else around me. And people have actually expressed to me that they’ve thought that before, so I have even more reason to fear it happening again.
I fear it so much that I often just go along with what others want, allowing them to walk all over me because I’m too hesitant to share what I really think. I don’t want to share who I am, because I’m afraid of what people will think of me. I’d rather Continue reading
from dreams to plans 