In recent months, I have been lucky enough to film Melissa playing the piano or trombone. (Beautifully, might I add.) It's fun to help her share her talents and joy in music with the Facebook world. It's also fun because Melissa is almost never satisfied with her first try, leading to a variety of funny moments before the final video goes live. Yesterday I compiled those funny moments into a blooper reel, and even though I'm the one who made the video and I also witnessed all of these moments firsthand, I still can't stop giggling whenever I watch it. Which has been often.
I call Melissa the Queen of Self-Confidence, and this is an example as to why. I don't know that I'd feel comfortable having some of my mistakes broadcast to the world, no matter how silly they are. The other day, I burned exactly one pancake, and it threw me off for the rest of the night. If someone had randomly been filming me, I would not have been cool with putting that out there for other people to see. It's ridiculous sometimes how much tiny things will affect my self-esteem!
But "bloopers" are a part of life. We all make mistakes, silly and otherwise, and it's healthy to acknowledge them, laugh at them, be willing to share them. It's when we isolate ourselves and fear judgment above all else that we forget to really live. Whether it's a wrong note on the piano or a pancake that gets a little too brown... those are things that happen to us, but they are not who we are, unless we let them be.
Good read. I've spent a lifetime trying to figure this out
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