Brain Food #734
Seeing through the fear
Thoughts of the day
As we are, once again, becoming witnesses to the ever-changing world order, in a world that often doesn’t make much sense, I have been thinking about the primal feelings and foundations of what makes us human.
Fear is an uncomfortable yet useful emotion, that can indicate to us when danger is present, so we can seek shelter. But when the threat of danger, even if that manifests through a constant sense of uncertainty, is always present, when fleeing is not an option because that would mean fleeing from life itself, learning to live with fear becomes the only choice.
The greatest gains in life are made when we see the fear, and we see through it:
“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
After all, courage is not the absence of fear, but the resistance to fear. To be afraid, but to act anyway.
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