{"id":648,"date":"2025-04-23T04:41:53","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T04:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allaround.work\/allarounduniverse\/?p=648"},"modified":"2025-04-23T04:42:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T04:42:09","slug":"makes-me-nervous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allaround.work\/allarounduniverse\/makes-me-nervous\/","title":{"rendered":"Question of the day: Are you nervous?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>What makes you nervous?<\/p><cite><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#ff6900\" class=\"has-inline-color has-luminous-vivid-orange-color\">Hum..<\/mark><\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#8ed1fc\" class=\"has-inline-color has-pale-cyan-blue-color\">The only thing that really gets to my nerves\u2014at 24 years old\u2014are the situations I haven\u2019t experienced yet, or the ones I\u2019ve only lightly touched and never fully embraced.<\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#0693e3\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">Even if I have some experience, it doesn\u2019t always stop that overwhelming feeling from creeping in when I\u2019m facing something new.<\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#8ed1fc\" class=\"has-inline-color has-pale-cyan-blue-color\">For example, moving into a new place, surrounded by unfamiliar faces, having to create connections and find a way to \u201cfit in\u201d\u2014that\u2019s when the nerves kick in. I don\u2019t sit around dreading it beforehand. It usually hits in the moment. The drive to the new place might feel like a breeze, but once I get there, start unpacking, and face the reality of it all\u2014it can be a lot.<\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#0693e3\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">Eventually, I\u2019ll go to work, meet new people, and settle into a rhythm. But it\u2019s not until I\u2019ve spent real time with someone, past the surface-level conversations, that I feel that twinge of nervous energy. It\u2019s like my brain throws out this thought: \u201cWhat if I mess this up?\u201d And in that moment, I\u2019m reminded\u2014I\u2019ve never been the type to naturally blend into what\u2019s considered \u201cnormal.\u201d<\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#8ed1fc\" class=\"has-inline-color has-pale-cyan-blue-color\">I\u2019ve hit reset on my life more times than I can count. Each time, I step into new environments that carry the potential to fail, or leave me feeling like I\u2019ve reached a dead end. Still, I keep showing up, even when it makes me nervous. <\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-black-background-color has-background\" id=\"nervous-are-you?\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#0693e3\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">Regardless, in the end I the memories of all past experiences and have learned a way not to feel nurvos&#8230; and that called<\/mark> <mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#00d084\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-green-cyan-color\">not giving a fuck. <\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#cf2e2e\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">The end.<\/mark><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>why care ?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26,37,25],"tags":[63,64],"class_list":["post-648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-content-posting","category-creativity","category-universe","tag-dailyprompt","tag-dailyprompt-1916","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdEKbu-as","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allaround.work\/allarounduniverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allaround.work\/allarounduniverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allaround.work\/allarounduniverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allaround.work\/allarounduniverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allaround.work\/allarounduniverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/allaround.work\/allarounduniverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":649,"href":"https:\/\/allaround.work\/allarounduniverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions\/649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allaround.work\/allarounduniverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allaround.work\/allarounduniverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allaround.work\/allarounduniverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}