Confidence may be the moment a living thing stops making itself smaller and allows its full presence to be seen.
Field Notes
The egret lifts its wings, lengthens its neck, and occupies more of the world around it. Nothing in the posture apologizes for its size, its strangeness, or the attention it may attract.
There is a kind of freedom in showing all of yourself—not because you are certain how you will be received, but because hiding no longer feels more honest than being seen.