If you are the world's best singer and you take credit for that after its been proven time and time again. That is showing the world that you finally understand you place in it.
-That is confidence.
However, THINKING that you are the best thing that the world has ever heard when you have only practiced in your shower as Aunt Nellie tells you how remarkable you sound. That is overdoing it. That's trying to create a place in this world that you don't belong.
-That is arrogance.
But the water gets muddier the more you look into this.
Those are things you do. But what about who you are. Ah! See... there you go stumbling a bit. Some people are pretty and they "know it" and then they seem arrogant.
Others can be drop dead gorgeous and not have the slightest idea and then they are not even confident.
What about you? Who you are? Are you confident with the person you are? Or do you come off arrogant? Maybe neither one?
You can be an optimist that everything in life will go your way. Because you "willed it to" or because you "just know it" or because you "have a feeling." If you are right? Then you are confident. If you are wrong? You were arrogant.
The differences tend to be simple. One is a truth. Another a lie.
If you are pretty and can take a compliment and leave it at that. If you can look people in the eyes without feeling better then them, then you are confident.
If you can't and you feel that the whole world doesn't understand the light that shines beneath you, you are arrogant.
So the truth or the lie? We all know what we hope we use. But we always hope that what we think is the truth.
So what if it is a lie?
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