The courage to post your first piece of writing online will outlast every comment on it.
RESILIENCE
WHAT THIS MEANS
Comments are weather. They arrive, they feel enormous for about two days, and within a month you will not be able to quote a single one of them. What stays is the change in what you consider possible, because the first time is the only one that requires crossing a line from private to public, and every piece after it is a smaller decision.
Put one thing up. Leave the comments alone for a day. Note the date somewhere, because it genuinely is the line between before and after.
A QUESTION TO SIT WITH
What writing of yours is sitting unpublished on your phone?
MORE IN COURAGE & RISK
- Cutting your hair short after years of long hair is low stakes and somehow huge. Small risks keep you from going stiff.
- Standing up to a bully doesn’t require fists. It requires a witness who refuses to laugh.
- Firefighters don’t run in blind. They size up the scene first. Brave people still read the room.
Free, with nothing to buy inside it.