Hold Your Head Up!
From the kitchen my ears over heard a voice from an episode of Top Shot Season Two (my husband & boys love this show): "...What can really ruin a marksman is overconfidence." Which spun my cogs to thinking, "what can really ruin a _______ is under-confidence (which by the way is not an actual word), so what I should be thinking is "lack of confidence". The word over- as a prefix to a word carries the meanings; so as to exceed or surpass, excessive, to an excessive degree, says Merriam-Webster. Below or short of some quantity, level or limit is their definition for the word under when used in combinations with words such as underachieve. Welcome to my own personal struggle. Not being overconfident. Proud, yes. But not in that "be true to your school" kind of proud, the ugly pride kind. I somehow lack a healthy quota of confidence. I know that I am important, have self worth and am a contributing member of society, yet the