"Our worst fear is not that we are inadequate, our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'who am I to be so brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?' Actually, who are we not to be?

You are a child of God: Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There is nothing enlightening about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God within us. It is not just in some of us, it is in everyone and as we let our own light shine we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."

~Marianne Williamson, her book "A RETURN TO LOVE", 1992\

I don't know about anyone else, but this really applies to me. 90% of the time I feel so inadequate in so many ways. How does a person not feel so inadequate? How does one get over that feeling when it's been there as long as that person can remember? If one always feels left in the shadows, how do you get over that feeling. How does one not let others make them feel inferior?
Have you ever seen "You've got mail?" I feel like Meg Ryan's character, when I'm in a situation, I can never say what I want to say. I always think of good things to say after the fact. I can never say anything clever in the heat of the moment. When I need to come up with something to defend myself I can't do it. It doesn't come until later in the day or a couple of days later.