Fear is wicked! A very wicked something!
Fear is that million voices that keeps telling you, "you can't". Fear is that flashes of images that flits through your eyes and only show you how you will fall if you try at all.
Fear has killed many dreams and visions. It has buried a million ideals that would have turned the scope and horizon of the world into something unimaginable.
Fear is a chain, a shackle that binds you in place. A prison that restricts your freedom only to a four wall. But worse still, fear is a killer of persons; a deadly assassin that stalks you in the dark and then gives you the final strike that would send you six feet below.
Many are haunted by this fear. Many are crying silently to themselves because of this fear. But what these persons fail to realize is that fear can be challenged and overcomed. It can be put on a tight leash and tamed like a wild dog.
You think those successful people don't have fear? Those you admire and wish you could be like them? You think they don't occasionally cower when it barks at them? Yet, what sets them apart is that they choose to face the 'fear' and do it anyway. And that's how they win everyday.
I don't know what your fear is. It could be yourself. Perhaps It could be of people's opinion. Maybe even failure. But whatever it is, I tell you, you do yourself harm when you don't face it anyway. Because it may kill you in the end.
If you don't wanna regret, if you don't wanna remain unhappy for the rest of your life, you better face the fear and do it anyway. You have the 'power' and the 'choice' at the same time. The power to challenge and overcome it and the choice to do so or not.
I have fears too, but I choose to face them, instead of running with tail between my legs. I wouldn't be the writer you so admire and shower compliments on If I didn't face the fear. And let me tell you, today I'm currently wondering what would have happened if I didn't. Many things will go wrong obviously.
It is very normal to feel 'fearful', in fact it is somewhat instinctual. But it becomes abnormal when you allow it to control your life. That's when fear becomes all of the above.
What I'm I saying? I'm simply saying you shouldn't allow fear to dictate your life to be average and full of regrets. I'm saying you have the power and the choice to confront it. I'm saying feel it, but do what you must anyway.
I hope I inspired someone out there.
Interesting post, you seem to put a lot of passion in your words and I like that.
I agree fear is something left untamed can be devastating but if tamed can be life changing. Fear is like the figurative angel and devil on each shoulder both leading down different paths though different interpretations of the same thing.
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