We all have these fears. Deep, dark, unsettling fears. We push them back, so they are out of sight. But there they stay in the back of our minds. We ignore them, as if they don't exist. And yet, they remain. Sometimes these fears keep us up at night. We refuse to address them. We refuse to talk about them because we fear the response as well.
We care deeply about these issues, but why do we continue on as if we don't? Why do we keep what holds us down?
We hate vulnerability. We hate being uncomfortable. But we try to settle, attempting to suppress the uneasiness. We consent to the fear.
It doesn't have to be this way. Our uncertainty doesn't need to be what shackles our souls. A pessimist sees the rockiness of the road ahead, fabricating and envisioning countless obstacles. An optimist imagines what greatness lies ahead, the possibilities of sweet, beautiful life that we have yet to experience or have only had a glimpse or taste of as of now. Let's look toward the future with expectant hearts, with a vision of what we want our lives to be and what they can look like. Let our past and fears have no authority over the trajectory of our lives. Allowing them to do so would be to actively seek the destruction of our hopes and dreams. We must address and crush our fears with hope. To move on isn't to not look back, to move on is to look back and see no future behind you. So we move on, one step at a time, seeing progress as we close in on our hopes and dreams that lie before us,
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