Emotional maturity isn’t about winning every conversation. It’s about knowing which ones aren’t worth having. You don’t have to correct every misunderstanding, answer every provocation, or defend every decision. Some things are better left where they are.
There’s literally a children’s board game whose whole premise is showing how free market capitalism ends with one person owning everything while everyone else goes bankrupt.
Are we actually living through the most chaotic era in human history, or are we just the first generation with social media forced to watch every tragedy on earth unfold in real time, and the world has always been this dark, we were just never close enough to see it?
We CANNOT even afford hobbies. We CANNOT afford to go out with friends. We CANNOT afford to exist anywhere outside our homes. They then call it a mental health crisis. It's not. It's an affordability crisis.
Stop letting the fear of failure make decisions for you. Apply for the job. Start the business. Learn the skill. Have the conversation. You can survive things not working out. What hurts more is never finding out what was possible.