Thinking It's Too Early for Someone Like Me Keeps the First Step Away
This post was automatically translated by AI from the Japanese original.
Today I went in for teeth whitening!
It’s the at-home kind, home whitening.
Every time my face showed up in an online meeting, I couldn’t stop noticing how yellow my teeth looked.
But even though I wanted it, I couldn’t bring myself to tell my dentist 😂
I’m a bit sloppy. Even at checkups, I get a fair amount of coaching on how to brush.
So I imagined being told, “You can’t even brush your teeth properly, and you want cosmetic treatment?”
Or, “Isn’t that a bit premature for someone like you?”
I couldn’t take the first step.
(Nobody actually said that. It was me saying it to myself. lol)
But every time I saw myself on screen or in the mirror, I’d think, “Ugh, I wish they were whiter,” and I realized that time was being wasted.
So at my last checkup, I finally said something.
Of course, the dental hygienist didn’t make a face at all, and explained how it works and how much it costs.
(The hygienist who always looks after me is very careful and gentle, and she’s the best. I’m so glad I got her 😍)
Today they took impressions of my teeth and told me what to watch out for.
“Next time we’ll give you the tray and the gel,” and the whole thing was done in a quick 30 minutes.
It didn’t hurt at all. It was that easy!?
“It’s embarrassing for someone like me to do something like this.”
“Someone of my level doing this? I don’t know my place.”
For some reason, I’d put whitening on a pedestal, as if it were for people who manage themselves better, people who are beautiful, people who have plans to be in front of others.
And I’d put myself down as “not that kind of person,” so I figured I wasn’t qualified.
I realized that this kind of thinking keeps me from stepping toward what I want to do.
If you want to do it, just do it.
You won’t know until you try.
So what if I don’t know my place?
Let’s quickly stop this strange habit of putting myself down ✨
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