I need a dancing icon! : comments [sigelphoenix]

Both, definitely. Like, I count my new knitting project as a mini-scary thing, since it doesn't risk a whole lot (time, money, and ego, but not a huge amount of them) but it's still a challenge to my skills and self-confidence.

For me, dancing is scary in both ways: the risk of embarrassing myself in front of strangers is public, but things like testing/expanding my physical strength and flexibility, wanting to capture/replicate the beauty of something I've always liked to watch, doing something "live" when I'm such a perfectionist ... that's more internal, and it matters less if other people see my success or failure there.

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Good, good.

(Can you tell I've been trying to do the same, just with different means?)

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I can, yeah! What I said about admiring the way you've taken on knitting - that was kind of about this idea. I mean, I respect your actual knitting skill, but I also think your approach/attitude about this, and other changes in your life, is what's really cool.

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Dora! Let us do scary things together!

Well, at least in spirit!

(But maybe also, sometime, something together!)

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We sort of do scary things together, in that knitting falls under "mini-scary" for me. XD (And at some point I may join you for a more ambitious activity like a retreat).

But I am open to other suggestions of possible scary things, and/or will act as cheerleader for other scary things you want to do. XD

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