Everybody tackles their own demons, some on a day-to-day basis, some probably only haunted in their sleep and some might not even be in touch with their inner demon.
I’m still trying to figure mine out.
I’ve studied for years and years; I have more than one degree and have had lots of practical experience through internships, projects and the like. I’ve travelled, met people, and seen things. I’ve been published. I’ve tackled things that I don’t know, things I know and problems on the way. (Thank you Google and Wikipedia!) I’ve even had people appreciate what I do.
I really don’t see it as “I can’t do it”, because I’m positive I can handle anything that comes my way. I could learn anything, solve any issue and handle myself fine doing it. I The problem isn’t even that I don’t know what I want to do, I think I pretty much figured it out. It’s just doing it that freaks me out.
I don’t know how I can feel like I’m a newborn into the real world, straight out of high school. But, that is exactly how I feel.
I have a pretty sizeable ego and my self-confidence is at an all-time high. The problem is the confidence I have in myself. See, I don’t think the latter two are equivalent.
So what am I scared of? Being the big ass in the middle of the excavation, having someone call my bluff as I actually know nothing or is it maybe failing? Is it losing the people who are near and dear to me, by leaving them for the unknown? Is it being forgotten?
I am scared witless and shitless by everything. A part of me wants to be naively ignorant and pretend like there isn’t a big bad world that need saving. I don’t think the big or the bad or the saving is part of the problem, but I could so do with living on my island in my city with my friends and family and never leaving. I’d probably be at a job that leads me nowhere but it would pay the bills. The problem is that this would bore me. Quickly.
I think it might be finally facing real challenges and new things. It could finally having to prove to myself, as well as the people that have bought into my bullshit that I know stuff even though I don’t, that I can do it. Not just talk. More action. Leaving the safety that has been my life for so many years. Doing it alone. It scares me to death, but at the same time I have to do it, mainly to prove to myself I can. Which I can. And I’ll do it with flying colors. I have a whole crowd cheering me on, which I can’t explain in words how much it means to me.
Still, I can’t help wondering what the hell I’ve gotten myself into. :S The nightmares are back and I don’t like it at all…
So, what’s killing you?