You aspire to be a writer, a photographer, a painter, an actor, a journalist – an anything. You need to take a few moments to read this excerpt and then continue on to the full post.
“I read those words, and had a sticky, squirmy reaction; I felt the way I do when I stand back and witness the horror of someone else’s undoing. It’s a tight kink in the stomach; a hard walnut in the throat. We’ve all been there, haven’t we: we’ve seen the speaker who loses the words. The young actor who blanks out on stage. The musician who forgets the chords. The writer — the food writer; science writer; academic; novelist; it doesn’t matter — blocked by fear. We wince. Who are they to even try, some whisper as we watch them tumble from their place. When it comes our time, we become that person, naked on the stage: doubtful, panicky, assured by the nagging, the poison, the gossipy gremlin chatter over our shoulders, promising that we too, will most certainly, most definitely, fail…”
Read entire post here: Elissa Altman @ Poor Man’s Feast.
Notes:
- Thank you Lori.
- Art: KwangHo Shin (via Your Eyes Blaze Out)