Fear's only a Habit

          
            I know that a while ago I may have touched on fear, but recently it has really be prevalent and pressing in my life for multiple reasons. It is one of those emotions that is always somewhere inside of us, but when we are at our weakest or at our strongest (in my case recently) it just seems to hover inside us more than usual. I'm not exaggerating when I say that I feel like recently I am the strongest I have been in a while, which is surprising for me considering everything that has gone on this year. Maybe we have to be at our weakest point before we can make it to the height of our strength. Although it sucked at the time, I think that it made me appreciate my strength that much more. And even though I feel like I am the strongest now that I have been in very long time, I feel like I have never been more troubled by fear. But like it is said above, fear is natural. In fact it is good, for the reason that it shows us we are growing. 

            Fear is an odd emotion. It is what holds me back, but at the same time it is what motivates me to keep going forward. It is as if I am being torn into two opposite directions and I don't know which side will win. Fear is a prison, on which the outside lies freedom. The only problem is that, we hardly ever know how to get out of the imprisonment. As much as I don't want it to be the case, I have come to realize that the only way to do this is to actually face our fears and do something about it, rather than to just try and ignore them. Which is what I am trying to do one by one, face my fears. I'm "attempting" to face my fear of the unknown, the fear of rejection, and the fear of opening up. And slowly but surely these fear seem to be slipping away. I've realized, for me at least, that one of the easiest ways to face our fears is to replace them with curiosity. Don't fear the unknown, be curious about it. Don't fear opening up to others, be curious about all the great things that can come of being open to others. 

            When you finally overcome your fears you can realize what it is like to live freely, live with nothing holding you back.   

             Fear is just a habit, if we work hard enough we can break it.

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself- 

nameless, unreasoning, unjustified, terror 

which paralyzes needed efforts

to convert retreat into advance."

-FDR