Fear. The word itself is scary; it’s scary to be scared of something. Nobody really likes to admit being afraid. But I mean, sometimes, you have to. In order to let someone in, or just to let it out. Sometimes to help control the fear, you need to talk about it. Let someone put your mind at ease.
Someone who said to me only a few days ago that he’s not afraid of anything told me last night what he’s scared of. I didn’t make a big deal about it, or even dare to remind him of his “I’m not afraid of anything” speech. He was sharing something with me that I wasn’t sure he was capable of.
We’ve all been hurt before. If we hadn’t, then we wouldn’t be where we are today. Who we are today. Past pains and grief and anger get you from there to here, and ‘here’ is usually a better place to be. But it’s when you’re afraid of being happy and comfortable again in fear of loosing it – that’s when you’ve really been hurt.
I think that a lot of people have a hard time wrapping their minds around the fact that everybody is different. Just because you’ve been kicked to the curb before doesn’t mean that the next person will. It doesn’t mean that they won’t either, but it certainly doesn’t mean that they will. The fear can hold you back from enjoying what is right in front of your face. If you’re living for the future, then you’re missing out on now. The past is gone, and the future isn’t here yet. The present is here now – and if you’re happy right now, you’re doing better for yourself than the vast majority. So what do you have to be afraid of, huh?
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