When the Going Get's Tough.
I have depression and everything that goes along with that - low self-esteem, anxiety, lack of confidence and my personality is naturally an introvert, so I thought that pushing myself to become a part of a community like WA would be way out of my comfort zone. Turns out it is, but I made the decision early on to hang in when it was tough.
I'll be honest, it hasn't been easy. Things were made especially hard the first time I gave feedback on someone's site and they reacted very badly and wrote some pretty hurtful things in a message to me. I nearly chucked it all in at that point. However, something made me stick in (probably that decision I had made early on) and the more I see in the community, the more I realize that the majority of people are supportive and overwhelmingly positive, as is the point of this community.
So I'm not giving up and letting internal or external negativity get the better of me. I am proud of what I have built up so far and I appreciate how I have been forced out of my comfort zone. I may have been here only a short time but how learnt a lot!
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Good for you Annette. This is a great environment for learning, building your website and meeting a great community of supportive folks along the way, of course there are always exceptions to the rule.
Way to go Annette, keep up the great work :-)