![]() I thought about this when I found this teen written letter written to herself written to her so called friend ‘skepticism’: It pulls you out of the bigger ‘us’ and makes you a smaller ‘us.’ Life is bigger than just us and while we are individuals and unique in our character we all pretty much share the same rules and challenges in Life. And it makes you forget that everyone doesn’t know what they are doing and making it up as they go and doing the best that they can. Its nagging presence insures you always feel like you truly have no idea what you, personally, are doing. But having skepticism as a so-called ‘friend’ is a bad person to have close to you. It will give you the reasonable caution to consider a little before oblivious optimism grabs your hand and pulls you off of some overly optimistic ledge. Having skepticism as an acquaintance isn’t necessarily a bad person to have in your circle of acquaintances. In other words skepticism slows you down - sometimes even strong enough to stop you. ![]() What that typically translates into is a life in which we constantly get tugged one way by optimism or hope and the other by skepticism. And, yes, I am fairly confident all of us sit back at some time or another and say ‘what if we don’t know what we are doing.’ Most of the time we do the best we can as we make it up as we go. I am sure they are aspects of the same thought but suffice it to say whenever you are skeptical with regard to something about, or for, yourself … someone will contritely suggest you are simply lacking confidence. ![]() I sometimes believe we confuse lack of confidence and skepticism. We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs.” “It is lack of confidence, more than anything else, that kills a civilisation. “It’s a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind.”
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