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Only those who doubt pursue certainty; those who dissimulate certainness, only nurture illusion.
Alessandro Parisi
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Only those who doubt pursue certainty; those who dissimulate certainness, only nurture illusion.

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People always, always talk about confidence, it__ supposed to be such an attractive thing. I wonder why though, why is it supposed to be such an attractive thing? When confidence hides so many other things that are so much more beautiful! When you think of being confident, you think of tucking away all those other things that you consider to be nuisances; but those nuisances make up whom you are! And those nuisances are beautiful. They are beautiful and they are you and they__e always going to be there, even when you try to cover them up! So what happens when they all come out one day? Are you going to feel like less of a person? Are the people who are supposed to love you, going to see you as less of a person? I say that it__ not about going out into the world and putting on a certain face_ it__ just about going out into the world. I__e gone out into the world! And I don__ put on that face! Or any other face, as a matter of fact! I don__ want to hide the way I play with my hair to feel more secure or the way I laugh at all the wrong times. I don__ want to hide those things because those things are a part of me. And I can still go out into the world_ and all alone, too! I know so, because I__e actually done it! So more important than confidence_ is serenity and acceptance. The serenity comes from having a deep acceptance of all those little things about you that add up like the trillions of molecules and atoms you are made up of! And that__ just beautiful. Being beautiful is something rooted and strong; being confident is just a matter of putting on something that isn__ even a real part of you. Falling in love with the molecules that make up your essence is so much more attractive. And maybe that__ what confidence really means_ the acceptance and belief in every single atom that you are.