In the early days of my journey, I was consumed by a fear of failure. This fear was so strong that it eventually made me pause and ask myself: Why am I so afraid of failing? 

What I realized was that it wasn’t failure itself that I feared, but the idea of failing in front of others. I was young, still just a kid (though I now consider myself more mature), and I was overly attached to external validation. I cared more about what others thought or said about me and my actions than about the actions themselves. It felt like I was doing things for them, not for myself

But in that moment of realization, everything changed. I learned to detach from the need for external validation—not just in the context of failure, but in life as a whole…🌹 