I have a confession. I have become a very cautious person, if dishonest. I endlessly revise my tweets because I& #39;m constantly worried that I may have missed a critical part of what I& #39;m about to say and someone would obliterate me and point out my logical fallacies, hypocrisy etc.

Sometimes it& #39;s something as simple as an opinion I know very well cannot be holistic yet I do my best to capture as many angles to it as I can and in the end probably fail to say what I meant to say in the first place.

This is akin to a fear of failure. I so desperately want to always be near perfect. So I make tweets that try to be fair, not necessarily the first thought I had.

Yet by eliminating a mistake I should& #39;ve made and perhaps learnt from the interaction with those who have thought it out, I end up missing these lessons and end up worse, never gaining from my engagements. I hide in a cocoon of my "well rounded" tweets and never ratioed.

The funny thing is I wouldn& #39;t even be bothered that much by taking backlash when it happens yet I avoid (read fear) it nonetheless.

Even in this thread. If you notice I put a phrase in quotations and while that might have its uses. In this case it& #39;s been used to prevent people from saying "imagine he even called his gibberish well rounded". https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🙈" title="Nichts sehen-Affe" aria-label="Emoji: Nichts sehen-Affe">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🙈" title="Nichts sehen-Affe" aria-label="Emoji: Nichts sehen-Affe">

This! This fear of criticism is what my confession is about. I don& #39;t know that I am alone in this and I don& #39;t even know what to do about it but I know it& #39;s not particularly a good way to live.