Fling

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"What if he flings it?
Then he flings it."

For so long, I lived under a microscope....every step examined, every word dissected, every gesture adjusted, every tone monitored. I wasn’t just moving through life, I was studying myself in real-time, terrified of slipping, desperate to hold everything together.

I told myself this was strength....That being careful, being precise, being perfect was the way to live. But really, it was a prison. I wasn’t giving myself permission to be human. I was so focused on never making a mistake that I forgot mistakes are a part of being alive.

The fear of failure had me by the throat. I believed one wrong word, one wrong move, would unravel everything. But mistakes aren’t monsters waiting to destroy you.
They’re just mistakes.
They come, they pass, and life goes on.

The truth is, you can always try again. And maybe that’s where real freedom begins... not in perfection, but in the courage to stumble, to get it wrong, and to keep moving anyway...

so...what if you are gonna mess up? everyone does..
just keep going...

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