Risk aversion

Life is about taking risks and seizing opportunities. I find myself feel as if I’m avoiding taking risks all the time, but still impulsive enough to put myself in situations that don’t suit me. It’s a weird contradiction.

There’s my thoughts and opinions, which I feel as if have lost their sharpness, and it feels more of a situation of code switching to the environment. I hide opinions I feel will be a burden to others and try to comfort everyone’s needs, and the perception that I haven’t suited everyone’s needs in the past keep me in a state of self-hate. 

Good thing is that I’m slowly starting to face these things. It’s so difficult, and it’s hard to convey to people what I want to say, rather than the polished version of events. I guess we keep on moving.

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  • No Iain, its not that at all, I didn't prevent a disaster through my own actions or lack of them. My lack of reward feelings might be because I was never encouraged to do things and rarely praised for the things I did do, I was sort of raised in a bit of a vacumn that way. I was certainly punnished for things I did wrong or just couldn't do, but also things just tend to happen to me, like the seat straps in a fairground ride coming undone and nearly being flung out of the thing, or doing my most successful ski, backwards with no control whatsoever, then there was falling down a rabbit hole whilst thinking about Lewis Carrol.