I am afraid…

Amir Muhsin
Nov 4 · 2 min read

Hi, my names is Amir and I am afraid of writing this post. Yet I am writing it. It is 2:32 am and I am sitting at my desk writing this post/blog/article, whichever the word that describes this chunk of writing properly. To be honest, it is none of the above. It is a piece of text that proves I wrote something on Medium. Well, I have been thinking about writing anything on Medium for a year now and yet I didn’t do it. Even though I wrote it many times to my daily planner that I would write a post on that particular day. But I didn’t. Why?, you might ask. Because I was afraid, I am still afraid of writing. I am afraid how people are going to react to my writing. In deep down of my heart I know that I shouldn’t be worried about this kind stuff, that it is super trivial thing, that opinions of others shouldn’t hold us back. None of it matters.

Okay… after writing 175 words including the title, how do I feel I ask myself. The answer is not some kind of motivational instant shift in my mind or life altering feelings… no. I feel the same and I am afraid of it still. Maybe now the fear of mine is little less than I felt 15 minutes ago. Overtime, if I continue writing these posts on Medium or on some other places, I will get used to it and it will become easier and more enjoyable.

I am planning of writing a post here everyday. It doesn’t matter what topic it is, I am just gonna write. These days, I have been reading too much stuff about consistency. Let’s see if I can put what I have learned/heard into practice. In every podcast I listened to and in every single book or article I read about consistency, they say over and over that consistency is the key to anything. I guess we will see :)

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Android Developer, Petroleum Engineer, Productivity seeker

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