30/10/2025
This is brilliant πππ
Insecurity is not a victimless crime
We often view insecurity as our own personal hang up - feeling sorry for ourselves and small can sometimes even become an identity, our personality that we think of as almost a moral ground to stand on: false humility can drive our lives. Sometimes we marry it and wear it proudly as a badge -
Using this smallness as protection for ourselves from growth and development, and honoring our lives.
But the reality is that insecurity is a personal issue that does affect others in many ways.
It can build walls between us and those who seek to love or connect with us. It can make us lash out when we feel perceived threat, and it can steal our gifts away from others who desperately need them. It steals away our precious life, and in our insecurity we can squander the few days we are promised, choosing uncomfortable comfort instead of facing the task of becoming our best.
We can so easily fear confidence because we confuse it with arrogance - but that could not be further from the truth. The secure person thinks of themselves significantly less than the insecure one. The secure person gathers himself and his gifts to share openly, and has thus freedom to do so because he does not worry about or pity himself. He uses his energy wisely.
It is our duty in this life to rise above the challenges we are faced with : the burdens we are given when young can either bury us, or allow us to become determined. But the more we pity ourselves and make ourselves small, the more we harm others around us, even if we fool ourselves into thinking itβs just us -
And therein lies the trap of insecurity - immense focus on ourselves, instead of the grandeur and beauty of all of life.
