Brittany is my older sister. She is two years older than me and is the most confident person I know. She is also the bravest.
About a month ago, she and her husband moved from Utah to Tennessee. She moved there in order to complete her education in occupational therapy.
Moving wasn’t an easy thing for her. She had no idea what anything was going to be like.
“You couldn’t see the neighborhood,” Brittany said. “We were living in a different culture and I didn’t know what people were going to be like.”
But even though she was afraid, she moved anyway.
“I had fears and anxieties but I knew that I needed to do it. I just had faith and my put on my most confident face,” she said.
Her classmates even assumed that she was confident.
“I’ve noticed that there’ll be people that come to me and be like, ‘wow, you look like you got it all together’,” Brittany said. “To me, I get stressed and cry just like everyone else.”
But the reason why her classmates trust her so much is because she holds herself in a way that is confident.
What is confidence to her?
Brittany said, “There are two different types of confidence. There’s the confidence that you are perceived by and the confidence in your abilities.”
She seemed confident on the outside, so they perceived her as such.
This is a good example of the first type of confidence.
The second type of confidence is what she had through trying to find a college to go to.
“When I was preparing for my interview for college, I went to the counselor at school and I asked her questions and she helped me,” Brittany said.
“I practiced and practiced for months and then when I went into my interview, I wasn’t as scared because I had found someone who knew more than me.”
Fear is something that can stand in your way and Brittany knows fear well.
“I think fear is something that’s primal and it’s good, keeps you safe,” She said. “But in today’s world, we’re too safe.”
Brittany doesn’t want to let fear be in her way. She wants to overcome it.
“I want to be someone that I’m proud of and I want to work hard,” she said. “I don’t want to look back and regret because I missed a situation because I was fearing.”
In my own personal opinion, I think that she is overcoming her fears in the best possible way by always trying hard.
Brittany has always been someone I look up to and even now, she still inspires me to do what I am afraid of and be the most confident person I can be.
