Fear is something everyone experiences at some point in their lives. It's a natural human instinct, and often a good one as it helps us avoid situations that are potentially hazardous to our health and/or continued existence.
This kind of fear is healthy. It's meant to keep you alive in a life or death scenario. Or at the very least make you more aware of your surroundings in CASE fight or flight becomes necessary.
Then there are other kinds of fear. Less healthy, less rational, less easy to control/conquer.
Like phobias. I have a MAJOR phobia of spiders. I have NO idea where it came from, all I know is that if I see a spider I shriek like a little girl and run as far as I can in the opposite direction screaming for someone to kill it.
Then there's my fear of failure. I know where that came from, but even knowing doesn't help me set it aside. It's this insidious voice that has the power to paralyze me before I even start something. It tells me that I'm going to fail, so why bother trying?
I wish I didn't listen to it, but I always seem to fall for it. And so I never try.
Until now.
This blog is me trying. This is me trying to get some words on a page (screen, whatever) at least once every couple of days, if not every day. Because the more I do it the more writing becomes a habit. And I'm hoping that habit will eventually pan out into a career.
So shut the hell up voice. I'm done with you and your negativity.
It's time to start trying. And yeah, that maybe means failing a time or five. But as long as I learn something from each failure, as long as I pick myself up again and keep trying, then it's not really a failure, it's just an exercise.
And all exercise is worthwhile.
Remember that. And keep dreaming. And make sure you dream big. Even if you shoot for the moon and miss, you'll still end up in the stars.
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