I was gripped with fear of losing my grandmother. She raised me and was the sweetest person I ever knew. So gentle of heart and mind.
I would wake up with what felt like my heart had stopped when the fear would take over. I realized that I had to scream back at the fear. I had to aggressively challenge my fear and I had to embrace the thought of her eventual passing. Eventually she did pass, while it was sad, I was ready for it and it did not destroy me.
I have friends and colleagues who will often comment on "how I am so confident", but it is not confidence but an absolute rejection of fear that powers my actions.
Now I know that when I am afraid, I have to become the aggressor. I have to hunt it down, in all the crevices it hides and expose it for what it is. Fear will NOT have power over me.
Beautiful, thank you
Their miscalculation is that they think everyone responds to fear the same way they do.
I learned this lesson when I was a teenager.
I was gripped with fear of losing my grandmother. She raised me and was the sweetest person I ever knew. So gentle of heart and mind.
I would wake up with what felt like my heart had stopped when the fear would take over. I realized that I had to scream back at the fear. I had to aggressively challenge my fear and I had to embrace the thought of her eventual passing. Eventually she did pass, while it was sad, I was ready for it and it did not destroy me.
I have friends and colleagues who will often comment on "how I am so confident", but it is not confidence but an absolute rejection of fear that powers my actions. Now I know that when I am afraid, I have to become the aggressor. I have to hunt it down, in all the crevices it hides and expose it for what it is. Fear will NOT have power over me.