Unfortunately feelings of inadequacy that are fostered from an early age follow is into adulthood and tragically help shape who we become... It's a hard road to shed those feelings. It took me years, well into my 30s, to shake the idea that I wasn't good enough because of my body and the way I looked. Even though I was very accomplished in so many areas of my life, I still couldn't get away from the feeling that I was 2nd rate when it came to relationships or social interaction. I used to cover those feelings with being a hard ass, or a smart ass, or a just plain old mean fucking bitch.Blue Frost wrote: ↑October 24th, 2022, 7:56 pm Renee you mention that, and it's a lot worse now than ever.
Most of us hold ourselves back, and we are the blame for it, but now days they make excuses that others are to blame, people that have been dead for centuries even.
I know I held myself back my whole life, some of it because of dyslexia, but it all falls on my own effort in the end.
Why do people have nothing, they don't try, and they don't push on with plans over misfortune, and self doubt. .
Fortunately somewhere around my mid 30s I started to realize that I was wasting my life being a jerk all because I didn't feel that I was worthy of love or respect. Then finally after taking a good look at my life, I started to realize that I'm so much more than my weight and my appearance and that all the feelings of inadequacy that plagued me since childhood were all in my own head. I started to realize and accept that people didn't see me the way I did. They didn't see the fat, ugly, dumb, person I ways saw myself ass. In fact many of my friends and family looked up to me as a sort of role model or mentor which really blew my mind..... Still having trouble wrapping my head around that one...