I Am Intimidating and That’s Okay
I have been called intimidating all my life from when I was little, and I’d like to be like, oh, I’m not intimidating. They’re just intimidated.
No, I am intimidating because I move different. My confidence is different. The way I talk and it’s straightforward, it’s different. And for people, when I say something, I mean what I say. You don’t have to imply what I say because I said what I said, and it was very honest and direct.
It doesn’t have to be brutal, but it was direct. That’s intimidating. And that confidence that I have in myself, that is also God-given, can be off-putting to people because for some, they consider it arrogance.
But then there’s also this piece of me where I know my silence is loud. I don’t have to speak to be heard. I walk in a room and sometimes the energy will face me, and I ain’t even say nothing. That can be intimidating.
And then there’s this other piece about how oftentimes I will say what my dreams are out loud, and I will say that I’m gonna do something and actually do it, and that can be off-putting to people.
So they consider my confidence intimidating, but here’s the thing: my confidence ain’t got nothing to do with you, so you’re being intimidated by me ain’t got nothing to do with me.
When I walk with God’s favor and my steps are ordered, and I move with that confidence, that can be intimidating. And here’s the thing: I don’t have to change that.
It’s OK for me to be found intimidating by people.
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