>>532520153
You can never receive validation if you never show it to the world.
You're at risk of having mean words thrown at you, but you always are.
As much as its hard to do, scramble your brain to see it as criticism for your work, instead of someone egging on your work because "X is not like Y so X is bad"
Life is full of choices and risks, and we take risks daily. But that risk is a choice, like any other. You can continue being stagnant and stay in hibernation, or show your work to others and try to improve on it.
Good work takes practice.