Read this if the life you’re trying to build still scares you.

Even if some of what you plant never grows, you always will.

Bella Martin
4 min readJan 15, 2024

It’s okay if the life you’re trying to build still scares you. It’s okay to wonder why everything is taking so long or if what feels like a lack of tangible progress is somehow significant; if it holds some hidden warning to turn around and walk in a different direction. And it’s okay to have a vision of who you want to be accompanied by the visceral fear of not knowing how to get there.

How will you ever arrive?

When might it finally be your turn?

What if you look back one day and regret it — that you didn’t do enough or perhaps that you did too much; that you gave too much of your heart to something that ultimately gave nothing back?

Maybe you wonder if something or someone you love so much is truly meant for you. Perhaps you question whether you’re capable of living up to your self-made promises or of becoming the kind of person you believe yourself to be capable of.

Maybe you’re worried you’ll prove yourself wrong in the worst way, not by exceeding your greatest expectations but by forever falling short of them. And maybe you’re afraid of what will happen if you’re just not good enough. What will happen if…

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Bella Martin

Words of healing, hope & happiness. | Find me on instagram @bellamwrites