“I really like working with you”, the grad student whom I’m mentoring said to me today.
For me, this simple sentence was a great relief, like a warm and bright shaft of light after some dark shadows in the past few days.
I guess one of the big questions I need to answer for myself is why do I continue to constantly need such confirmations? Why do I still continuously doubt my professional skills as well as the possibility of my being someone pleasant enough to be around or, at least, pleasant enough to work with? Why can’t I trust myself, yet, after all these years?
Why do the shadows still overpower me to the level of total loss of trust, from time to time?
The Little Prince and the Fox 