I wish that that seemed true. I’ll forget a lot of ‘what if’s before I forget the pain and embarrassment from some failures. They haunt for years.

And the whole thinking about best/worst case never really seems to help me much either. Like the reasonable worst case scenario always seems so much worse than the reasonable best case. It seems quite infeasible to completely make several friendships or one’s reputation, but it’s easy to obliterate it all at once. Sure rock climbing might be fun in the moment and conquering one’s fear validating, but you could almost just as easily cripple yourself for life.

Life and the world is always stacked so much against anyone, so seeing that to me isn’t a fun thing

Because it becomes physically painful and mentally exhausting at a certain point, causing issues including things like chipping teeth.

And, because it also so often means little anyway.

The pain of “what if” is a hard one, but so is that of failure. The “what if” also doesn’t haunt me quite the same ways that all my failures do.

For people who don’t have like diagnosable anxiety I’m sure this quote is fine though

The doubts and potential failure wouldn’t hurt if one lacked the dreams to begin with

But what if I do care?

What if one of my main goals in life is to acquire significant relationships, which even if unlikely looking the fool in the eyes of others could be a negative towards?

Though I also have social anxiety which means that I’m certainly going to be scared of what people think

Technically that can be seen as true, since g e existence of the universe is finite and on a more personal level even things that are terminal or crippling for life will end with one’s inevitable death.

Though, if one considers death a circumstance, then this is categorically incorrect

If anyone can say that, then they can thank luck more than anything else.

Life doesn’t matter what you choose or want. You just have to hope it give the choice to have one