Facing My Greatest Fear: The Need to Perform

Shattered and tattered, here I am, facing off with my greatest fear: the opinions of other people, the ways of this world, the overwhelming positions of hive minds and social in-groups which I rarely, if ever, fit into — the expectation to conform and fit into a mold, the need to perform. How does one effectively carve one’s path in this world? How does one blaze his or her own trail in the face of mass…