Dear Ravi:

That’s the scary part: not knowing what will happen, what will be. “Dunno how long it’ll (your newfound resolution…strength) last.”

So there is the fear factor, the most powerful threat to your journey toward a better Ravi and a better life. Not knowing. And this is it… no one knows what will be. Let’s say all the right circumstances happened for you perfectly up to this point, all in perfect place, and still you have no guarantee. And when you feel that fear, it sure feels.. well, it feels scary, sometimes too much to bear.

You calm yourself best you can, tell yourself that this fear you feel, with no real and imminent danger to attend to at the moment, is Useless Fear. It acts against you, not for you. You learn to be less fearful of the fear itself. You learn it doesn’t kill you, it just feels like it would. You stare the enemy in the face, the fear, and you call its bluff. And you move on. There is no greater strength than doing just that. While so many, many people run to the nearest comfort: drugs, extra foods, releasing aggression (!), or just folding into the fetal position, paralyzed-like, you move on.

What do you think of my Sunday morning fresh-brain thoughts on strength and fear?

anita