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What currently makes you feel confident and empowered to be your most authentic self?
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Unveiled Artist
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Making art, all mediums I have rescources for, as central tenent in my and as my life.
It makes me alive and gives me purpose to wake up each morning. Its a part of my childhood history. I use it to heal. I use it for shopping and studying for tests. It expressed who I am and its my authentic self.
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Euronymous
SSilence
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Nothing. I'm too nihilistic to have confidence or feel empowered.
Kangaroo Feathers
Yea, it is written in the Book of Cyril...
Weaŕing armour and hitting people with a large piece of steel.
oldbadger
Skanky Old Mongrel!
My authentic self lacks high confidence. This is my autumn and I feel more humility now, because looking back, I can now see that I was a just a child for my whole life, in a playground with all those other children, we were all so self-important! I don't think that's a bad perception, just my authentic one, and it helps me to smile more, empathise and love a little more.
For myself, and being rather a doddery old chap, it is mostly in recognising all the important bits of my past, putting them into perspective, learning from much of this, and yet still retaining that sense of self-identity and self-belief that has had a continued existence and that has enabled me to survive the more troubling bits. I do tend to have a lot more confidence too than I ever did - which helps enormously. I have always tried to be authentic but often this was not achieved for various reasons.
Being in an environment of acceptance which, for me, is a rare occasion because of religious/spiritual divides. Usually when I am alone walking my dogs in the forest is the best time. In crowds, the social pressures are slightly burdensome and annoying.