Yes! Yes! Yes! Thank you so much for writing this.
It is for this exact reason that I finally made myself start writing recently. I have always been afraid of failure in things I truly cared about, precisely because I feared it meant I was not the right kind of person for that. My parents also inadvertently developed my belief that one was either talented or good-for-nothing, so I’ve always harboured a fear that I wasn’t ‘a natural’.
Also, thank you for recognising how daunting it can be to finally open your eyes in front of all the choices you have. I currently feel both excited and terrified about the ‘daring’ choices I’ve recently made.
I guess that society also tends to ‘behave’ like our parents did, overly focusing on the grandest success-stories in order to benevolently try to inspire or motivate us… Unfortunately, for some of us it does quite the opposite.
