"I was stuck between the fear of continuing to exist in the darkness of waiting for someone to prove I was coasting by on luck and the fear of seeing who I really was in the full light..." God, I could have written that myself, though perhaps not so eloquently. I've done a lot in my life and my "talent," "wisdom," "savvy," what have you have often been praised. But to this day some demon inside says, "If they only knew what a fraud you are!"
"I was stuck between the fear of continuing to exist in the darkness of waiting for someone to prove I was coasting by on luck and the fear of seeing who I really was in the full light..." God, I could have written that myself, though perhaps not so eloquently. I've done a lot in my life and my "talent," "wisdom," "savvy," what have you have often been praised. But to this day some demon inside says, "If they only knew what a fraud you are!"
It’s such a battle, right?
Sure is! I am trying just now to write about such worries, even at 83. But I am thinking your piece blows mine out of the water!
Not at all! People need your voice exactly as it is in the same conversation.
You are kind to say so….