Do I dare?
There are things in life which you wonder whether you can do? Whether you are capable of taking that mighty leap of faith?
You look around and you wonder, there are so many people better than me who would do it better than me? Who are capable of it much more than me? Yet, should I just give up?
My heart wants to try, even if I might fail. But then there is a part of me that says, if it all ends in nought, it will be such a colossal waste of time. And then you have to start all over again. Not to mention the heartaches and the shattered self-confidence? Its like standing on the brink of an empty stage, where no one in the audience knows who is coming up next. If you turn around and run, no one will ever know you were up next. If you go ahead and make an utter fool of yourself, the world will be laughing at you. But then, if you do take that giant leap and you do make it big, you will be a star. The shining star.
Someone told me once, that you don’t regret the things that you tried and failed, but only the ones that you didn’t dare to try. I wonder if thats true.
Maybe the people who are better than me never get down to it because they don’t dare to. They might be the ones who will grow old to regret the wasted talents. Maybe what differentiates me is not that I am any better, but that I am not afraid to fall. Am I not afraid to fall? - I don’t know. The world will believe in you, only if I believe in myself. Wouldnt it be infinitely easier if the world believed in me first.
At least, if I try and fail, I will at least know that I tried. That I gave it a shot. I will know that I wasn’t good enough - but that I gave it all I could. When I live to be a hundred and sit by the fire, I will laugh at myself and my ridiculously misplaced confidence. Wouldn’t that be better than not knowing how it might have turned out? Wondering if I would have made it, if only I had tried?
I wonder..
I think you did answer your questions youself by these lines:
>>The world will believe in you, only if I believe in myself.
>>you don’t regret the things that you tried and failed, but only the ones that you didn’t dare to try.
Both of them are indeed true. It is better to have tried and failed, than not to have tried at all!
Comment by Sig11 — October 22, 2005 @ 9:00 am
Yes, Sig11, I guess I answered my own questions in my post. Yet its easier said than done..=)
Comment by Sue — October 25, 2005 @ 7:56 pm