Does Everyone Feel This Way? When I

Bernhard Schlink

Does everyone feel this way? when i was young, i was perpetually overconfident or insecure. either i felt completely useless, unattractive, and worthless, or that i was pretty much a success, and everything i did was bound to succeed. when i was confident, i could overcome the hardest challenges. but all it took was the smallest setback for me to be sure that i was utterly worthless. regaining my self-confidence had nothing to do with success...whether i experienced it as a failure or triumph was utterly dependent on my mood.