Fear

Fear is the reason we don't do a lot of things. Fear is what keeps us from doing what we know we should, what we know we could and what we know is better for us if we started, and especially if we did, what we feared.

Fear is what always stands between us and that. Fear is what people tell us isn't real and we can and will overcome fear if we try. But we know better. Better because we know fear never goes away, it only changes if we do what we want.

Fear is what people tell us it doesn't matter. Fear is what we know does matter. Fear is what restrains us and fear is what can free us. Fear is what it is fear. To dismiss it is foolish. To live it is equally foolish. To embrace it gives life.

Life gives fear a place, not as a state of mind which inhibits your thinking but as a feeling you can control knowing it's there without reacting to it. Life lets you recognize and acknowledge it and then put it where it belongs, just a feeling you can live with.