Dear Fear,
What is your purpose?
Why do you knock so loud?
What are you trying to tell me?
Why the hell do you choose to stick around?
(fear answers, somehow instilling more fear in me)
What!?
That's preposterous I don't like you! I don't want you around!I so do not have a crush on you.
hmm...
(reflecting on fears' accusations that I keep it around, love it, follow it always, am it's # 1 fan, subscribe to it not only in my nightmares but also in my thoughts, and dreams.)
So you're saying that by using you, fear, as a justification for not doing something, I sabotage myself and keep myself away from all of the lovely experiences I could have?
Fear smiles it's ugly smile.
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I just finished reading Jen Sincero's 20th chapter entitled, Fear is For Suckers, from her book, You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life. I laughed out loud in the streets because her perspective on life just kills me! She describes a moment in her life where her and her friend decided to go on a road trip and hike into a cave. When she gets down on all fours, deep into the cave and is on the cusp of freaking out from being in a closed off, scary, dark place, where a "monster" could get her at any given moment, she stops.
By the way, I did not include the laugh out loud part, you have to read it for yourself.
In the darkness she decides that she will calmly exit the cave, instead of the alternative of going bat shit crazy, because as she reflected, "The choice was mine."
It is you who decides what you want to do with the fear that arises within you.
Do you continue to stay closed because opening up to something new and awesome is too scary or do you take a chance and experience a newness that you would have never imagined?
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