confidence

A four-panel comic. A man with red, flame-like hair confides his insecurities to a calm woman. Panel 1 — Man: "I'm worried I'm not confident enough." Woman: "Everyone worries about that." Panel 2 — Man: "I really think I'm too self-doubting." Woman: "Look, we all have doubts from time to time." Panel 3 — The man insists he's uniquely broken: "Look, I'm different! I have no self-regard." The woman reassures him: "You're normal! You're just perceiving too much confidence in other people!" Panel 4 — The man delivers the depth of his self-doubt: "When I get in the shower and imagine arguments with people, sometimes I lose." The woman, now wide-eyed and alarmed, exclaims: "CHRIST JESUS" — the joke being that even his imaginary arguments, which he controls, go against him. Votey (bonus panel): a black-and-white sketch of a worried character facing an egg- or pepper-shaker-shaped character with a smug face. The first asks, "Is that pepper?" and the second replies, "I don't share my recipes!"