adults

Most of us will feel like a fraud, some of the time. Feel unprepared and ill-equipped for the role we’ve taken on. Worried that the ones around us agree, that we don’t deserve their respect.
Sometimes, our social anxiety is the fear that someone will see through our disguise to find that we’re just a kid wearing adult clothes, pretending to know what we’re doing. But it’s less stressful to know that most other people feel the same way too.
If we remember that we’re all just kids playing dress-ups, we can stop hanging our respect on what clothes someone has put on.
Respect can come from how nicely we play with each other. Compassion can come from knowing that we’re all a bit scared and overwhelmed sometimes, we’re all just doing our best to fit into our costumes.