Describe one positive change you have made in your life.

I don’t know where to start. Not because I’ve made so many positive changes that it’s hard to choose, but rather that I don’t know how to qualify something as a positive change versus just a change that eventually yielded a positive result.

Maybe I could just say my mindset regarding being insecure about what people think of me.

A big example I can give is around dental work. The guys in my family have terrible luck with dental problems, and not for a lack of decent dental hygiene. For me, the case was the way my wisdom teeth grew in against the rest. What ultimately happened with them and the way they impacted my other teeth led to me needing several teeth pulled, enough to warrant partial dentures.

This is what led to me being a little insecure at first. Needing dentures in my early 30’s was not something I felt particularly proud of because I saw them as a mark of shame almost. I didn’t want people knowing for fear of being judged.

It took a few years but I’ve more or less gotten over it by reminding myself it could have gotten worse if I hadn’t gone through with all of the necessary work, and nobody is going to know unless I tell them (like I’m telling all of you.) I just need to keep telling myself that shit happens, and this is my lot in life now, so no point in stressing over it when I have more important things to care about. People will naturally accept me for who I am and they will be the ones I can devote time and energy towards instead of worrying over the perspectives of people I may never meet.