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
Recycled Flowers 