2nd October 2022
What does it look like when you’re older or mature? Not sure, but I can tell you what it feels like. My stomach is in knots and I am having a new thought every 10 milliseconds. This is funny as I mentor a number of young people with high anxiety and I always have an answer for them. For myself In just have to suck it up, take a deep breath, stop shaking and go for it.
18th December 2022
The above paragraph was writing outside Saintsbury’s in Hertford waiting to meet my Girlfriend Jo for the first time. She wasn’t my Girlfriend then obviously, the paragraph was about feeling anxious and meeting someone new for first time in over a decade and a half. Now we are a couple and I feel less anxious.
