Confidence.

One word.

It is such a powerful word in this day. Without confidence, what are we? It seems to be one of the most important things to have.

This comes from my own experience. I have been learning a lot about what it truly means to confident and how important it really is.

I am not the most stylish, I am not the most creative when it comes to most things. I have to try really hard to be good at something and even that is not enough sometimes.

But the beautiful thing that I have been learning is that none of that truly matters. Confidence does. If I like something and nobody else does, or if it is not trendy enough or maybe it is flat out ridiculous, if I like it and stand by what I love, that stands above any trend.

People are drawn to confident people. I used to believe I was super confident, but I soon figured out I put my confidence in the most fleeting thing of all- Looks. How we look only goes so far because it is so swayed by society and other people. So what I was really putting my confidence in was other people. Silly me.

For so long I couldn’t choose what to do, I was swayed back and forth- always asking others what their opinion was. I still find myself doing that sometimes and I have to stop and tell myself to think for myself. What is my opinion? What do I choose? Even if nobody else would choose it. That is organic individuality and that my friends is confidence.