You've been practising for a long time. You've given what you want to do your heart and soul.

One day, you decide you've practised long enough that it is time to share a piece of yourself with the world.

So you post online and at first it's met with silence. Then some comments come in, but it's not what you were expecting.

You sit down and reread the comment over and over again. You're wondering why this stranger had this to say about you, your work, the very thing you've put your heart and soul into.

For the next few days, you think about what they said often. You try to shake it off, but you can't. Their words persist in your mind like a stubborn oil stain married to a cotton cloth.

Now, you want to continue putting yourself out there, but you second-guess yourself.

"What if this is not good enough?" "What if they are right?"

And just like that, days turn into weeks and weeks into months.

Months of holding yourself back because of what strangers might say.

Then you begin to tell yourself that you just need to keep pushing, but at the end of the day, you are human, and you feel. It's hard to turn off your emotions.

Just like that, you are caught between two worlds. You are passionate but also uncertain.

You do not realise that you are now hanging your entire existence on what strangers on the Internet might say.

I hope that one day, you do not wake up with regret at the realisation of how much time has passed while you were being held back by self-doubt.

I hope you learn to accept that everyone won't always get you, and that's OK.

You just have to stay true to yourself, no matter what.