Confidence

There's a misconception about people with confidence. Confidence is believing in yourself, your value and your place in the world. Confidence is believing the universe makes no mistakes. The universe just exists, it's us who create expectation and therein lies the seed of all disappointment. The universe doesn't give one tiny shit about your expectations. Those are about you. Create by you, for you.
Confidence is not about always knowing the answer, it's about being unafraid to throw your opinion or your hat in the ring. It's about a willingness to put yourself on the line and even if you're wrong, not being broken by that. Madonna is quoted as saying "power is being told you are not loved and not being destroyed by it." I could not agree more. Confidence is knowing that with or without the kind of love you dream about- you're going to be ok. I doubt myself all the time, I constantly second guess myself, but I know it's going to be ok. I know that even when you think there's no way you're going to get through something, you do. You can. Surviving is an option even during the darkest night. And that's confidence.