Doubt Is Uncomfortable, But Certainty Is Ridiculous.

“Doubt is uncomfortable, but certainty is ridiculous.”

— Voltaire, Oeuvres de Voltaire: Lettres

August 17, 1924 Journals of Anais Nin 1923-1927 [volume 3]

I am a terrible combination of “whatever happens, happens” and “If everything doesn’t go according to plan, I will vaporize”

that james baldwin quote where he says, “it took many years of vomiting up all the filth i’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before i was able to walk on the earth as though i had a right to be here.”

"be not afraid"

demanding

you have no right to control another person's feelings

does not provide a productive alternative

"when you hide behind that rock I feel as though you don't appreciate the fact that I came all this way to deliver the word of god"

statement of fact

not pushy

opens conversation to productive compromise

emotionally aware