I do not speak up comfortably.

Any situation that requires speaking UP and over a powerful voice or strong ideas makes me shaky and feel physically ill. It takes so much strength for me to say those first words that I become an emotion balloon, and all logical reasoning and retort power feel like they’ve been sucked out of me.

I’m not quick with facts; challenge my ideas, and I will forget my supporting argument and doubt speaking up in the first place. I will fear that I have done my cause more harm than good because isn’t this what “the other side” wanted? To prove that what we believe is empty, hollow, nothing but a Mississippi snowflake that will melt as soon as it touches the ground. [Read more…]