Self-confidence
By Avi Alog

That's a Heavy word ha?
What does it really means?
How do we translate this word in our mind?
Some will say self-confidence means loving yourself, some will say is to be present, that people will know who you are.
Some will say you need the self confidence to talk with a woman in a bar, or a woman, that knows what she's worth and she will decide which man she wants.
Let me ask you, do you really this is self-confidence? How do we know that those people are really confidence in themselves? Because they showing it from the outside?
It's more of how we look and handle from the outside then how we look and handle from the inside.
In my opinion self confidence is not how we look from the outside or how we can talk with a woman in a bar, not sale yourself in a job interview, not really, it's more of how we feel with ourselves from the inside, how much we trust ourselves.
In most cases, we care about what people will say or think about us, and from there comes the wondering about our self-confidence.
We believe those people more than we believe to ourselves.
Instead of the word self-confidence we can say self-belief.
Our self-belief got hurt somewhere, in some part of our life, we took people's opinion about us and started thinking that our look is the force that influenced our self-confidence, we got into a crazy trance of something called self-awareness.
We started tagging people as fat, ugly, disgusting, stupid, we just went crazy!!
Who knows how many singers, painters, artists, we lost in our world, people that didn’t have enough confidence, belief, in themselves, that thought they were not good enough.
If only they had self-belief in them I'm sure we could have enjoyed much more people's creation.
If we will have self-belief we will have self-confidence.
Like we understand there is no limit for technology, to medicine, we need to understand there is no limit to ourselves, no limit to the things we can do.
Some will say that if you are talented you will make it, I'll say if you believe in yourself strong enough, you will make it.
We are all talented, we are all special in our own way, we can all be everything we ever dreamed of.
Me, for example, back then, blamed my parents for my lack of confidence, from words they told me, words that they didn’t think will affect me and of course they didn’t mean to hurt me, they are humans just like all of us, but today I'm not blaming them for anything.
Today I understand that it was in the past.
I'm sure a lot of us have problems from our past and it affects us in our present life, in our self-confidence, self-belief, but we forgot something very important, it happened already, it's no longer with us, we just held if for all kinds of reasons.
Once we will release this past, a lot of things will disappear, we will understand there is no need to live our past, that we live in the present, in now, when we will understand that leaning on our past takes us backwards, that it harms our self-confidence, the belief in our self, we will just release it, all of it, because its place is in the past and not now.
If the past is not here with us anymore, there is no need to give it importance, we just need to think about it with a little common sense, to realize that we have all the abilities to overcome it so we can have a happy and healthy life, without fears, without doubts, life with a BELIEF, in ourselves, in our world, in all.
The past is not the present, the present is us!!
