It's a trait I see and admire so, in other people.
Your grace, your courage, your vulnerability.
But I'm just a mess, they say. I'm just muddling through.
I have yet to figure out how to explain that that's the part that's amazing, that the willingness to be imperfect and out in the world, to play it strong and wrong if they have to (like my band director used to say), is what I admire, what I envy.
How much I wish I was the kind of person who could do anything at all, right or wrong, without thinking about it for 12 hours first and regretting it for 48 hours after.
I messed up, guys. I didn't finish NaBloPoMo, and I was so embarrassed I shut down for three months.
I'm so embarrassed of how embarrassed I was.
Showing up here after all this time scares me, maybe more than it should. I'm afraid that no one will care, that it doesn't matter. I'm so afraid.
But the only way to get courage is by practicing it.
Which is a sucky way for that to work if you ask me.
