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Permission to Fail
I am a quitter. There has never ever been a girl who has been harder on herself than I have always been. I have always compared myself to the masses, wondering why my grades weren’t higher, why I wasn’t getting promoted as fast as someone else, wishing I felt like more of a success even while others probably view me as successful. For my entire life, I have worried too much about what everyone else thinks of me, putting such intense pressure on myself to be better than I am, almost paralyzed by self-doubt and self-consciousness. The worry and panic that I feel when I come face-to-face with my own…