9 february 2025, @mariannewest's Freewrite Writing Prompt Day 2642: lost confidence

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Lost Confidence

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Not everything happened at once. It doesn't fair go absent overnight; or maybe, it dissolves slowly, minute by minute, until you wake up one day and do not perceive yourself.

It appeared unobtrusive at to begin with. A aversion to communicate, a reexamination of choices that were once programmed. At that point taken after the overanalysing, the self-doubt that saturated each viewpoint of their lives, counting connections, choices, and indeed how they entered a room. They started to shrivel, to form themselves less discernible, as in spite of the fact that they were too bad to be there.

The reflect swung back on them. The voice in their heads got to be a heartless, immovable commentator. Each past botch was rehashed like a broken record, and each imperfection was emphasizd. Performing the things they utilized to do bravely felt crazy. Once full of openings, the world presently showed up to be a set of boundaries implied to serve as a consistent update of who they weren't.

Be that as it may, they knew in their hearts that certainty remained. It was as it were holding up to be recouped, buried beneath the burden of vulnerability. It wasn't almost being faultless or never making botches. Indeed when fear whispered, "You can't," it was around getting up, talking up, and moving forward one minor step at a time.

In fact, certainty is something that can be recaptured over time. You've got to battle to repair it. And they would find it once more, piece by piece, step by step.

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