“Overcoming fears leads to personal development. Confronting your fears is the hardest step to take, but doing so opens doors, not only to new and exciting experiences, but to parts within yourself you never knew existed. It doesn't matter what the outcome is - success is so subjective. You gain so much from confronting your fears, pushing through pain barriers, and continuing things you don't want to do. Not doing so leaves your mind in an eternal state of wonder, depression, confusion, inadequacy... lack of self-worth.
“This state of mind becomes your weakness, and when confronted with the same fear again, it is these weaknesses that compound and make it that much more difficult to overcome the fear.
“To realise your full potential, the limits of your mind, body and spirit, fears need to be confronted. At this point in time I believe that each time you back away from a fear, refuse to confront it, refuse to do it, you lose a piece of your life. Again, not only have you lost that experience, but the person you could be, the new part inside of you that you could have discovered will remain unknown to you, until at some stage in the future you can overcome your fear. Therefore you run the risk of dying without having fully lived.”
Fear ~ Risk ~ Discovery
These are some notes I discovered today that I had written some ten to twelve years ago - around the age of 19 or 20 - about the subject of fear. I found them in one of my old notebooks in which I used to write, philosophising about life and love. As I read I was quite surprised at how my views back then are still so in sync with my views on life now. I may not have followed my own advice at every opportunity - there have been many occasions over the years where my fears have got the better of me - but reading old thoughts like these put the intentions back in the forefront of my mind, making me more likely to confront my fears in the future.
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