Normalize having some audacity.
We live in a—categorically—absurd world. Where adults film themselves run-skip-jumping down the street for TikTok. And people surgically alter their faces because an AI-generated filter gave them an eyelid lift they really liked. Yet we can’t approach low stake activities—repeating outfits, eating alone, learning new physical skills as an adult—without blanket permission from strangers.
Please normalize this so I don’t feel weird.
What if you decided the thing, whatever it may be, is worth feeling a little weird? And you simply accepted it as the cost of doing what’s good for you?