obtainable

Written By Briana Dean

4.2.26

If I’m honest, I’ve been scared to start this section of the blog, Between the Seams. I’ve written blogs before, sharing my personal thoughts and what I’m currently relating to. This go round, though, it feels like a weight of pressure has been placed on what I say and what I create, even if no one reads these words or pays attention to what I’m doing. The weight has been put on me by myself, of course. Worried that I have nothing to say, nothing worth sharing, and definitely nothing worth people taking the time to read. Isn’t the world polluted with enough constant jargon about every possible topic? 

im·pos·tor syn·drome

noun

noun: imposter syndrome

  • the persistent inability to believe that one's success is deserved or has been legitimately achieved as a result of one's own efforts or skills.


I’ve never considered that this overwhelming feeling of wanting to scratch everything from the world and stop trying so hard could be imposter syndrome. In my mind, I thought to have imposter syndrome, you had to successfully deceive everyone into thinking you’re the real thing. Which would be impossible for me, right? Everyone could see right through that. As Taylor Swift said in The Archer,

Can you see right through me?

They see right through

They see right through me

I see right through me


I have big dreams and big plans for Untucked, which require me to pull myself up by my bootstraps and get it together. My style may not be for everyone, but it could be for everyone. I don’t have the most groundbreaking eye for fashion, but I do have the ability to create everyday outfits that are obtainable, relatable, and re-creatable. I may not be able to offer the highest designs, but I can offer creative style solutions. You may not have the ability to create world peace, but you have the ability to create community. You may not have your dream job right now, but you have dreams to hold on to.

I’m still working on believing that everything I do doesn’t have to be the biggest thing that’s ever been done, it just has to be something that I’m proud of. And that’s enough. While my dreams currently feel like they require (and deserve) someone that holds steeper qualifications and a higher stature, they’re stuck with me. And yours are stuck with you. But they’re right where they’re supposed to be. If your mind operates anything like mine, it may echo, “What if you don’t have what it takes?” But I’ve started echoing back, “What if all it takes is you?”

Briana Dean