Remember how I said one time that you can create something out of nothing? That's what I am about to do right now.
I got inspire to write this post because of @starstrings01 comment few days ago on my post: "Am I wasting my beautiful set of teeth? Why you should smile way too much." You can read it up here. Here's what I picked out from his comment.
I think you got your username really right. Prettydami it is.
Well, that reminded me of a part of my life where I have often doubted my capabilities of doing something great. Sometimes after making some achievements and I get trolled with compliments I still find it difficult to believe what I have just achieved. At other times I feel people are probably just exaggerating.
Just about last week a friend asked me to tutor a junior girl. I was like me? Are you serious? I can barely handle myself how much more a junior. I gave her a million excuses why I can't. And then she said "Just try. I know you can do it".
With @starstrings01 comment I congratulated myself that I at least admit that I did something right with the name pretydami. Dami was given to me by my dad, prety (I chose to eliminate one of t) was my idea and together I arrived at the name pretydami. At least this time I appreciated God's good work in creating me. I am His masterpiece and I couldn't agree less.
Even though I had such negativity in the pasts, I am almost a different person now. I have come to realize that if I keep waiting for people's approval of me, I would waste many good opportunities.
What if someone who doesn't know me gives me a task and I say I'm sorry, I can't handle this. Then he/she believes me and hands the task over to someone else. If such a task was to yield tons of benefits (money wise and exposure), you would agree with me that I would definitely miss out.
I have also realized that even the people who are aware of my capabilities may one day get tired of always trying to persuade me and what would become of me then?
If I was told few months ago I would be writing down my thoughts on a blog I would have definitely been in doubts. But here I am.
At the beginning I felt like no one would appreciate whatever I pen down. But I am proud of myself on how far I have come.
I just write down whatever comes to my mind and see how far it takes me and if it doesn't yield as much result as I would have expected, I look out for my errors, correct them, write again and keep moving on.
I know where I am is not where I was last week and if i didn't believe in myself to alteast take the first step to create account on hive, I wouldn't have gotten this far in the first place.
Refuse to be the old me. Be Bold. Believe in yourself because if you don't no one will. Don't be afraid of making mistakes (everyone does anyways). You are not the first to fall from a real stage or life's stage. But when you do, get up, take a better position, stand well and confront your challenges.
Above all learn where to draw the line between PRIDE and CONFIDENCE. This post represents the latter.