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I guess you never lose confidence in yourself that way!

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If your confidence comes from others, they can tear you down whenever they want. Exactly.

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Doesn’t it get lonely?

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Lonely? I mean, nothing about not outsourcing your confidence says you can’t also enjoy others’ company. Nor does it mean you can’t appreciate when others respect you or your capabilities.

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But does it mean you value it?

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Yeah, of course. Just not in a way that lives or dies by it and it alone.

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It sorta sounds like you don’t consider it at all.

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Not for my own opinion of myself, I don’t. I like what I do, I enjoy what I do, and if something I make or do is not something that I like, then it gets redone, or binned entirely. If others see value in it too, then great. That means I’m on my A-game, or that they can relate, or the quality is high, or all of the above. But if something exists with my name on it, you can bet that I enjoyed it and thought it was worth.

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The quality is too high?

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Huh?

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Like, if you’re making something for someone else, do they ever get jealous because they couldn’t do something like that, and take it out on you?

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When you become popular enough to be called famous by any metric, you do garner haters by nature. I’m sure something like that is the sad truth to their motivation.

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Do you get a lot of haters?

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Now, definitely. Before, depends. It’d be a big number if you counted them, but there are a lot of people in the IA who have at least heard my name before. Like a lot.

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So it sorta balances out?

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I’d say percent-wise, it was small before. Now it’s much more.

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What do you do about it?

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Another difference depending on before versus now. Absolutely nothing before. People are gonna hate, and it is what it is. Now, though? When I was slandered and falsely accused of major crimes? Well, that’s a work in progess tied to stuff we talked about before we came here.

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That sounds more like harassment!

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It’s a lot of things, really.
*Tilts my head back and faces straight up*
Man, hot water is sooo nice for loosening up.