Strange but True

If you look over my profile, somewhere on here it says my name is Joy. That is not true, my name is actually Sandra. So why did I not use my real name when I set this up?

I could tell you that I was protecting my identity or I was using my pen name but the truth is that I was hiding out. What does hiding out mean? That means that you justify whatever it is that you do to avoid something; some responsibility, some attention, some whatever.

It might be a small thing, that I used a nom de plume however it is why I did it that matters. At the heart of every situation where a person ‘hides out’ is fear. And that fear is usually groundless and useless. So now I get to the reason that I am bringing this up. It’s not to ‘fess up’ it is to show you that fear is a waste of time. I was worried that I needed to cushion myself from the world because after all, I am a good writer, I am writing about stuff everyone wants to read and yada, yada, yada. Now the laugh out loud part, I have been writing this blog for almost two years and look how many followers I have. Yeah, I know that some people just bookmark my blog and don’t ever become a follower but all the same it should be clear that my fear was for no reason at all. And it’s pretty much the same for all fears-just a waste of time & energy.

So whatever it is that you fear today, you gotta ask yourself, is this fear useful or useless? My guess is that it is useless for 99.9% of all people at all times.

My name is Sandra and I write this blog-hope you benefit from it!