You can go through life limping, timid, afraid, tentative, uncertain, blustering, bullying, manipulating or whatever your favorite crutch or prop is.
Or, you can go through life with grace and confidence.
But go through life and confront your highly individualized and personal challenges you must. How you choose to do so is up to you.
Why not make it a beautiful thing? A masterpiece of love.
Lord, help me to be me the way you created me to be. How holy is that?