Conquering my fear of shorts!

Hey Y'all! So for as long as I can remember I have HATED shorts and pretty much anything that shows my legs! Well honey let me tell you walkin in anything but shorts in Mississippi in the summer is just not happenin! Unless you want to die of heat exhaustion that is. Now yes my momma use to put me in shorts and short dresses that showed off my legs... But as a teen and now an adult I have covered those braces up! I will wear short dresses but only if I can wear boots that cover up everything with them! So one day a few months ago I was at my happy place (A.K.A Target😁) and decided to be bold and bought a pair of shorts!! I took them home and immediately the anxiety kicked in "What are people going to say?" "Will they stare?" "Will they laugh?" All those questions went thru my head! So the next day I finally got the courage up to put them on. Y'all I sat at my kitchen table for an hour trying to convince myself to go out and walk in these shorts! FINALLY I got the courage to throw my headphones on and just walk. Let me tell you that was one EMOTIONAL walk! Every time I would see someone and they would wave or even just look at me I would choke up. I cried for a good bit of the walk! After I got home and sat down I started to think about it more and more.... and I became really proud of myself! I faced a fear I have had for the last 30 some years! I even went back a couple weeks later and bought a few more pairs of shorts to wear. I will be honest  I still get anxiety when I wear them in public but I totally ROCK them when walking in my neighborhood😎😎! Hopefully as I wear them out in public more I will feel more comfortable and rock them everywhere! Next thing to conquer.... bathing suits! But that's another blog in itself! Time to go tackle 3 miles in my cute shorts!!! 

💕Hugs💕

      Kelley

 

  

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