Unironically yes. You have to stop letting the potential disapproval of others stop you from being yourself. Sure, you may be cringe in the eyes of some, but it is better to live in cringe than die repressed.
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(P.S. if you add a ! to the beginning of the link it’ll embed as an image on Lemmy, though it won’t do anything about Kbin I don’t think)
if I use arch btw how cringe am I?
Is it letting go of fear or finding confidence and self which overwrites fear?
Yes.
Like Picard himself said; fear is the mind killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man makes cringe or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who makes cringe, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without cringe and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he makes cringe, at least makes it while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor cringe.”
- Theodore Cringevelt