And here’s one more “thank you so much for writing this!!” comment.
I’m very underconfident, with a mental health that works fine until it doesn’t, and it’s also impacted what I got from the college I attended, from my choice of major (“no way I can actually do [other thing that seem more to my liking], so….”) to my extracurriculars and side projects—or lack thereof. So, I was really feeling the “there’s literally nothing I can bring to anyone, anyway”. Thankfully—for me!— it’s been getting a lot better recently, but… being agenty is still, like, super difficult, or is that just me? I’m at the stage where I can sort of say “maybe I can actually bring something to that space” but then it takes no end of poking and prodding from other people to get me to actually have a serious look at that idea, because that still seems huge and daunting—and maybe because of good ol’ executive dysfunction, too. But this post brought my underconfidence down a notch, and that seems to bring the agenty-ness also up a tiny notch. Thanks for that!
And here’s one more “thank you so much for writing this!!” comment.
I’m very underconfident, with a mental health that works fine until it doesn’t, and it’s also impacted what I got from the college I attended, from my choice of major (“no way I can actually do [other thing that seem more to my liking], so….”) to my extracurriculars and side projects—or lack thereof. So, I was really feeling the “there’s literally nothing I can bring to anyone, anyway”. Thankfully—for me!— it’s been getting a lot better recently, but… being agenty is still, like, super difficult, or is that just me? I’m at the stage where I can sort of say “maybe I can actually bring something to that space” but then it takes no end of poking and prodding from other people to get me to actually have a serious look at that idea, because that still seems huge and daunting—and maybe because of good ol’ executive dysfunction, too. But this post brought my underconfidence down a notch, and that seems to bring the agenty-ness also up a tiny notch. Thanks for that!
I’m glad to hear you liked the piece! Best of luck with everything.