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Kamakaziturtle t1_ixt8o2s wrote

Imposter syndrome sucks. You often only see people at their best, or the mask they wear to make it seem like they have it all together. Meanwhile you are painfully aware of all your faults, how much you’re faking, how difficult it’s is to keep it from falling apart. And you feel like a fake, and worry people might figure it out.

Truth is, a lot of people often feel this way, in fact it may be less common to not suffer from imposter syndrome. So don’t feel like you are alone, or don’t belong, because you do more than you know.

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This_Bitch_Overhere t1_ixuj3hb wrote

Impostor syndrome is what you’re experiencing and is something that is engrained in you for birth and from your ancestors. Your mind is trying to protect you from doing something new because “it could be dangerous and kill you.” It’s the same thing that kept us fro jumping from tall distances when we didn’t know that it would kill us if we landed wrong or, we landed on a rock. That is actually part of your primitive mind, and it is natural to all of us. Furthermore, you’re more conditioned to listen to your negative feelings than you are to your positive feelings. When impostor syndrome strikes, it is best to just observe the thought and realize it is just that. A thought. It isn’t you. It does not define who YOU are. Accept that it’s there and move on. Imagine yourself being in a crowded bar with lots of people talking while you carry on a conversation with a friend. Those other conversations are there, but you don’t have to hone on them because you are in conversation with your friend, and nothing else matters.

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Dumguy1214 t1_ixudgx2 wrote

having a God complex does not nesserely make you a narcissist

having a beloved disco tyrant over you was made by gravity and bending in space time

a gravitational engine called destiny, and you dont mess with destiny

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