the unstitution

I am afraid of:

• sounding stupid.
• sounding arrogant.
• making factual mistakes.
• making spelling or grammatical errors.
• reading this in future months/years/decades and cringing.
• hurting other people’s feelings.
• wasting people’s time.
• inciting ire in people.
• saying how I feel and people not liking me because of it.
• not coming across as “cool.”
• having doors close to me because I write here.
• all criticism. Even constructive.

I have been afraid of things most of my life, and have lived accordingly.

But, the fear makes for a small life. And I don’t want a small life. I want a big fat, rich, fulfilled, challenging, involved and active life. One where I feel I am actively participating, and in which I am fully engaged.

I want an adventure.

So, I am sucking it back and starting now because I am more afraid that the fears will continue to be effective at shutting me up and closing me down, than the consequences of facing any and all of the above.

And so I start.

Ok. So far so good. That was hard. But now I think this could hurt more. I want to learn, so I am actively encouraging you to participate too, and to write to me. And yes, you can point out spelling errors, factual flaws, lapses in judgement, lackadaisical fact-checking etc.

But please – be gentle when you do so. I am just getting my “sea-legs.”

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