Confidence

Someone just douche-bag-ly said that I had to be more confident in myself (well, not toooo douche-bag-ly, but in a very rough and straight in the face way) and he mentioned too that it's very easy for one to do so, that it is merely a change of mindset (or something along those lines...) butbutbutbut... I must disagree... Sure, one can restart life anew with confidence, but doing so is wrong, and stupid. One has lived a life of however long one has lived, and to ignore everything, throwing away all the experiences that one has lived through, it simply feels very wasted and unauthentic.

One must analyse their own lives, their stories, to find out why they lost their confidence and only then, one can fully heal from it.

And I guess that's what I should try to do.

It's not about denial, it's not about reinventing yourself, it's about embracing who you are and what made you so, embracing both the past & present.