If this is the last post before this thread dies, it was worth starting it, just for what you wisely said. I'm afraid that all of us sell ourselves short sometimes because we're afraid of making fools out of ourselves. (Not that we don't from time to time, anyway.) But, there are times when a door is opened and we're too timid to walk through it. The director of the Male chorus I sing in has always had a better sense of what I can do than I have. Each year, when we do our anniversary concert, he asks me to do a song that I am unsure of being able to do. But, I've come to trust his judgment even more than my own, because he has been right every time. If I hadn't taken the challenge, I would have denied myself some truly wonderful experiences.
Last week, trying to figure out how to fill out the accompaniment that was being played on the piano, I started to wonder if I wasn't making a fool out of myself. And, if you have any doubts about yourself, there's never a shortage of people who will assure you that you can't do something. Funny thing is though, I seemed to be the only one noticing that I was struggling. They were all too focused on making sure that they got their parts right to pay any attention to me. Now that I have some distance from it, I realize that it will take very little for me to fit in with the piano and add something and I'm enthusiastic about practice this Wednesday.