Title: On Confidence Anxiety

Form: Poetry

Author: Luke Meyer

Artist: Luke Meyer

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If you believe you are understood, people will assume you understand yourself. If you have an anxiety that people don’t get you, or that people believe you don’t get yourself, or that you must be wrong, you will know this, and it will show, people will see it—-this will provide the need for you to prove yourself correct, and yet the conversation dynamic won’t allow it; you would have to resort to steam rolling to make your point; because of who you are; you would have to strangle the conversation if you can be that; you would have to demonstrate that you know you haven’t made your point, as if you are reading the other’s mind, as if it were like that, and not just energy. Not everyone wants to be that guy, not everyone can be, not everyone should be, even if he’s OK. If you believe you are understood by people in general, you will not have to explain yourself every time when you don’t want to because of energy and necessity and everything else that makes it not worthwhile to do it when you’re just in chill mode, or you are talking through things briskly, enjoying yourself, etcetera. You will be able to make an unverifiable claim that you know is true, leave it at that and carry on. If your energy is true, you will be trusted that you at least believe it to be true. You do this at all times, you will be trusted you must be right.