Holding Back

I’ve been holding myself back.

I have a million ideas and a dozen things in progress and I can’t finish any of them, because they have to be perfect.

It’s a problem.

I follow @inspiredtowrite on Instagram and one thing she shared really resonated with me.

Calling a project finished means saying that it’s good enough, and that’s terrifying.

Amy McNee

It’s scary to put stuff out there, especially factual material. It could be wrong! People could correct me! Yikes!

I hold back on writing about well-known railways or equipment, like VIA Rail or an SD70 versus an SD70M-2. I don’t feel like an expert on anything specific so I feel certain that I will get a detail wrong. I hate being wrong.

People who read and comment here have been very kind, and I appreciate that. Rationally I know it’s OK to publish things that are imperfect, accept the correction, and move on.

I still don’t like being wrong.

But I’m trying to accept that the risk of being wrong is not worth holding back for.

Let’s go.