Don't hold back

I had a conversation with my dear friend. We were jesting about how cringe we were when we were young.

And I just realized that it’s fun to go back to the moments like that where you’d just laugh at yourself. Life was so much lighter when I dared to do the things that are cringe.

I think a big part of why being young is so freeing is ‘coz we thought less about what people would think. We only began being hyper-aware of what people are going to think of us when we got a little older.

Life is needlessly more serious now… we don’t try scoring a job in a company we dreamt of ‘coz failing the assessment would be embarrassing—not to mention heartbreaking.

I’m so guilty of this. I live more in my mind than in the ACT-U-AL PRESENT life than I’d like to admit. If I do this… and fail… they’re gonna think of me as…

And it’s insane! Haha. I hold myself back from the things that’d make me happy ‘coz what?! ‘Coz I’m thinking of what people are gonna think?! People I don’t even know.

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When our stomachs ached of the laughter, we were begging each other not to keep adding ‘coz it feels like we’d literally run out of breath.

I told my friend, maybe that’s what’s missing now that we’ve grown a little beard on our faces; love is cringe, to change growing is cringe, genuine happiness where you think life is good is cringe.

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