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3 Subtle Signs of Extremely Insecure People

You should know them for your own good

Shajedul Karim
6 min readOct 28, 2020
Photo by Anthony Tran on Unsplash

We all are insecure about something or the other in our life and that’s okay. Without insecurity, how can we secure our lives, our future?

However, excess insecurity is very bad. When you have got everything and still you feel insecure, you have got some problem. I am kidding.

I had everything I ever wanted, still, I felt insecure — about almost everything. That’s normal because at that point you are worried about losing what you have got, in other words, you are insecure about not being able to retain what you have already got because insecurity means just that — lack of confidence in our abilities.

And insecurity isn’t bad. Because you can’t help. Do you know why a huge elephant can be tied up with a thin rope still he won’t even try to move an inch? Because they were trained this way from their childhood. Similarly, the root of your insecurity is in your childhood, be it any big calamity you had to go through or that excessive push for success by your guardians. Those experiences and feelings get so engraved in our minds, we can’t move past it.

But the good news? We can change that now. I have done it. You can turn your insecurity to humility too. Before that, let’s figure out whether you have got any…

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Shajedul Karim
Shajedul Karim

Written by Shajedul Karim

My story might not matter but it'll gently touch your interior and remind you how smarter you are. Google forced to include numbers: shajedul.karim.01@gmail.com

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