About once a week, I rediscover that simply being confident I am a decent person, whilst being open to the possibility of needing to apologize and adjust once in a while, leads to a lot more good being done overall than being so neurotically fixated on the fear of being 'problematic' that I am paralyzed into inaction. And in the same vein that doing good does not automatically undo harm, doing harm does not automatically undo good, and I should not emotionally spiral upon realizing I've made a mistake. There is no cosmic double-pan scale weighing each of my good actions against my bad ones, and if there is, then no person on earth can tell where the scale lies. It's more important to do something right than do nothing wrong, or however that post went. This logic also applies to making 'good' or 'bad' creative decisions from a purely artistic standpoint. Some day that lesson will stick.
