Fear

Grey: "A couple of hundred years ago, Benjamin Franklin shared with the world the secret of his success. Never leave that till tomorrow, he said, which you can do today. This is the man who discovered electricity. You think more people would listen to what he had to say. I don't know why we put things off, but if I had to guess, I'd have to say it has a lot to do with fear. Fear of failure, fear of rejection, sometimes the fear is just of making a decision, because what if you're wrong? What if you're making a mistake you can't undo? The early bird catches the worm. A stitch in time saves nine. He who hesitates is lost. We can't pretend we hadn't been told. We've all heard the proverbs, heard the philosophers, heard our grandparents warning us about wasted time, heard the damn poets urging us to seize the day. Still sometimes we have to see for ourselves. We have to make our own mistakes. We have to learn our own lessons. We have to sweep today's possibility under tomorrow's rug until we can't anymore. Until we finally understand for ourselves what Benjamin Franklin really meant. That knowing is better than wondering, that waking is better than sleeping, and even the biggest failure, even the worst, beat the hell out of never trying." Recently I have been feeling fear win. Why is that? I mean at some point in our lives fear wins and then regret comes for not ever giving what you were scared of a chance and you promise yourself next time I am going to do it and when that next time comes around you sit there paralyzed going over all the negative "what ifs" not thinking about the positives.  That part for me was called high school and now that I am in college I find myself worrying about the same stuff I did in high school. I have challenged and succeed along with failed at a few a my fears.  Through fear comes time being wasted and life passing by because I/you are to damn scared to move and fail. It is the new year and every year I make this resolution and I stick to as much as I can and that is breaking my own fears. This year will be different needles and hights are small fears that have nothing to do with me feeling stuck, but then again maybe if I get over those two minor fears the big stuff will be easier to overcome. So, here is to another year of breaking personal fears that are holding you and me back from living life to the fullest.