One of our ideas was to blog our publishing pursuit, hoping we could get an army of supporters to spread the word.
At first, I thought this was a great idea, but the closer we got to launching this blog, the greater my insecurities grew.
I started to fear that broadcasting our lack of progress to (potentially) the world would send the wrong message.
Don’t be mistaken. It wasn’t the fear of being rejected. It wasn’t the fear of being seen as failures. It wasn’t the fear of being perceived as childish dreamers. None of that bothered me, because I knew none of that is true.
What is playing with my mind is that annoying human need to be understood, to be validated, to be seen, to be heard — to be connected to another human being. We all have that need.
Think about it. Isn’t that one of the most devastating feelings we, as human beings, must endure — to be left alone with our questions, our assumptions, and our active imagination? When we’re left alone with our doubts, dark demons of deception start to materialize in the shadows of the surrounding silence. This silence allows internal insecurities to conjure up all sorts of things to fill that empty space within each one of us.
Yep. That was my fear. We’re trying so hard to reach out to you — wanting to connect with you, wanting you to connect with us and others — that I was afraid our message would float so freely through cyberspace and no one would hear it… no one would see it…
We took the chance anyway, and I’m glad we did. If we hadn’t, we wouldn’t have met you.
Thank you for taking the time to read and follow our blog. Your encouraging words and suggestions have given us more energy and support than you can imagine.
You may not have realized this, but once you became part of this blog, you became our partner on this journey.
We really do appreciate your time and attention. No matter how this journey ends, we know we have friends out there that wish us well.
Enough of that… Let’s move on to something else…
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