The path

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone, there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

- Frank Herbert -

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We all hold fears, many of them are justified; I never trust anyone who says they are not afraid of anything - dumbasses.

Fear isn't a negative thing unless we let it be; fear can be motivating and I've seen that occur in person many times. Fear causes our minds to think and it's those thoughts that lead to an action of some kind which can be productive and constructive or, of course, destructive.

Each of us takes a path through life and we can only truly see the ones that lay behind us; the one ahead, despite our best-laid plans, isn't for certain and life has a way of throwing obstacles in the way and some of them, or the things that may occur because them, can lead us to feel fear be it of the unknown, failure, personal harm or to someone/people we value; there's many reasons we feel it. No matter what though, we have to walk that path.

Your path is your own, mine is mine, and while it is increasingly prevalent for people to take influence from others, (damned social media and the bullshit found there), it's important to understand the path we've already walked as it helps us determine better ways in the present and forward and looking on the fears we've faced, (how we dealt with them), will help in the next journey forward...so I think fear plays a massive role in our lives and shouldn't be shunned, shied away from or discounted, it should be embraced; I see it like a crossroads of sorts, a point at which a decision needs to be made and that decision will impact the present and future.

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The path we take through life never runs straight or smoothly and no matter how confident we are about our plan it'll change, I've lived enough life to have learned that the hard way, but we can always influence it even if that influence is simply upon how we think, our attitudes and how we act and react to what comes our way. I can only speak for myself when I say fear has played a massive role in my life and has brought about some amazingly good results; I stand up to it, put it in a fucken headlock and make it do what I want it to rather than let it stop me in my tracks...how about you?