I see what you mean. Yes, that's how I think. It just doesn't work to worry about tomorrow, because tomorrow will do whatever it wants to. So you just live with what you have, and try to be happy as long as you can. ^^
Well, speaking in front of people, is different than speaking to them. Just like speaking to one other person is different than speaking to five. I can make a speach, if I'm prepared and feeling confident about what I will say. (My favorite thing in fromt of a class, though, had to be debates... :D)
I'm not a leader, because I'm bad at making decisions. And you hit spot on; I have serious trust issues. Not only do I have issues trusting others, but also myself. I have issues working in groups because I feel either they will fail me, or I will fail them. I live in the moment, but when I do something, I give 110% to get it right.
Of course, that can get exhausting, and I have a tendency to work in fits and starts because of that. I'll work very hard, and then ignore what I was doing for a while, and do something else. The problem with that, is that sometimes when I come back, I've emotionally changed enough, or gotten so much better at whatever it was, that the thing I was making seems awful or poorly done, and I can't finish it at all.
Oh, gosh, here we go. This is my group paranoia in MMOs talking, so, erm... What I think would happen if I joined your group:
I wouldn't be able to keep up, or I'd miss a vital cast, or I'd pretty much just be carry-on luggage.
Anyways, I play a different MMO, and I only play free games online anyway. What I play is Perfect World International (which I like because you can fly ^w^) and I'm only level 20 (partially due to my extreme teamwork issues).
As for who I can trust, I might have you beat. I only have two. And one of them I'm only half sure of. The other... is far away from me right now.
It seems like you and I think a lot alike.
You know, if reality is based on belief (which I think is what we're both getting at), then it's hard to say if things which are usually believed made up, aren't actually real somewhere, because someone, or someones, might believe in them. It's also hard to define the term "insane". That word, "insane", it seems to me is exactly like the word "abnormal". There is no normal, and there is no sane. It's all just averages: the average way of being, and the average way of thinking. It's true that some extreme ways of thinking can be harmful, but that's true whether the person thinking that way is considered insane or not.
I'm rather flattered that you felt the need to quote me. I'm just stating what I've come to believe after the things I've been through and what I've learned. I actually believe in some things that others might term "insane" myself, though I keep them to myself, because it hurts no-one that I believe that way. I'm the type of person who will believe in what I can't see. I wasn't always. But that was because I got hurt.
It was a stupid little incident, when I found out that instead of seeing Santa Claus every year, it really was just my dad, just like the other kids said, even though I argued my cause so well. But it made me believe for a while that there was nothing else out there but God, and sometimes I half-doubted that.
But I always wanted to believe, and I sometimes got myself into some interesting situations because of it. Finally, I was convinced once again that there's more out there than what we can see - but this time, I'm older, I know more, and I know that just because those things might be out there, doesn't mean they're all good, or that life can be a fairytale again like I thought it was when I was a girl.
You got burned, and it still didn't teach you to be careful? That's the mentality I don't get. XD
Of course, I'm paranoid about getting hurt, too. I guess I'm just paranoid about a lot of things.