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Fear is a natural emotion.

Fight or flight.

Don’t get stuck!

Keep moving forward.

“If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.”

– Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

What’s doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.

– Friedrich Nietzsche

Let’s switch gears. Let’s not talk about life theories or ideology, but allow for a little comic relief, if you will.

You know how friends sometimes joke about each others’ driving? Driving up and over curbs, into and onto grassy yards, and tapping or barely touching a little pole aren’t the worst things that can happen.

So people laugh and take themselves seriously by asking, “But did you die?”

And although those moments may make our hearts jump a little. Although those moments may make us question whether we’ve entrusted our lives to the wrong individual and maybe even make us fearful that our end has come too soon, the great question of hilarity is still, “But did you die?”

Life’s things: events, incidents, accidents, coincidences, trials, tribulations, victories, losses and everything in between can be scary. They can be terrifying. They can be extremely exhilarating and anxiety provoking. These moments can bring upon several big emotions, sometimes all at once.

Petrifying you.

Shocking you senseless.

Vaporizing the vividness of the intensity that exists in this moment.

Oh my gosh! I’m scared. What to do?

So many feelings. We’ve all felt it a time or two.

All. The. Feels.

Goosebumps on your neck, shoulders and arms

A chill inside that terrifies and alarms

Saturated in emotion

Saturated in feeling

Petrified with fear

Is the end nearing?

Please note: this feeling, these feelings are not going to stop us.

Fear kills more dreams than failure ever will.

– Suzy Kassem

I heard before that there are more billionaires buried beneath tombstones in graveyards with dreams that they never birthed than there are living billionaires.

It’s been said that fear kills more dreams than failure ever will. People are sometimes just too afraid to try to pursue their dreams, to fail.

I mean the fear of failure is sometimes more daunting then failure itself.

The fear of failure can stop us from trying and then never being able to fail.

Failure is not always a bad thing. It’s a part of growth. It’s a part of victory, part of success, part of learning.

Never be afraid to speak your mind. You have one for a reason.

Don’t ever be afraid to show who you really are because as long as you are happy with yourself, no one else’s opinion matters.

Push through petrifying fear. Keep going no matter what. And never let anything pause your purpose.

Persistent uneasiness

Everywhere is unsafe

Terror rises and falls into shadows

Reliving the scariest thoughts and memories

Intensely shaking, teeth chattering… mind

Fretting over minute miscellany for more than minutes

You can’t move a muscle, you can’t even blink

Imagine being stuck, immobile, completely idle

Nothing to lose, nothing to gain

Going nowhere is scary, scarring

Fidgeting in terror

Evolving into strength

Accepting emotions

Relief from being a coward

Welcome back. I hope that you are well, feeling refreshed, ready and energized enough to fully grasp whatever this day holds for you.

Thank you for clicking here and checking out my blog. I truly am grateful for each viewer, reader, subscriber, commenter, and sharer of Recycled Flowers Blog. Through concentrated efforts, connected ideas and concerted manifestations, we are growing, as a community.

I am diligently working to develop this space into something magical. Like somewhere over the rainbow, way up high, wheresoever the storage clouds are and bluebirds fly.

It’s cyberspace, so community building looks different. We all have our Internet aunties, cousins, best friends, other buds and budding bonds that bound beyond and break the barriers of basic blather about business and beauty.

Let’s grow and flourish. Let’s release our ideas, the seeds that will produce our dreams. Let’s make our own dreams come true. Our dreams will flourish and bloom. They will create a legacy that continues to flower and unfold into beautiful knowledge and power in the lives of humans here and humans to come.

I share Recycled Flowers Blog with you because I find joy and peace in opening up, being transparent and vulnerable with my truest thoughts, feelings, reflections, insight, wisdom, laughter, hope, happiness and heart with those who care to read.

Recycled Flowers is a blog written to share timeless excerpts, teachable moments and more. The beauty of it all is that as we recycle wisdom and give flowers and homage to our heroines and heroes, we edify one another and our generations to come.

Let us bestow flowers upon one another through our stories and experiences to spread laughter, tug at heart strings, make us reflect, wonder, imagine, inspire and more.

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Answer one or some of the questions above. Tell us how you are a solution seeker and you solved a problem. I have reminded myself that Recycled Flowers Blog isn’t a journal by any means. Everything doesn’t belong here.

Writing is how I recharge, how I release and recharge. Recycled Flowers has been me sharing or recycling the beauty, that is, favor, power, love, knowledge and wisdom, that has been passed to me on to you. But I want Recycled Flowers to be more than just me sharing.

I want Recycled Flowers Community to be you and I pouring out and watering each other. Here we can support, uplift and empower one another.

Let’s dig a little. You dig, a little?

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