Fear can be my obstacle... my dark place in the woods which I must get through to get to the brightly lit and flowering path... but I will not allow any dark place to keep me from moving forward. I owe it myself, and to those who I have traveling my path with me (those like my child, my partner, my closest loved ones - whose lives are affected by my choices), to not allow fear to overcome reality. The future is a part of that. If I tuck tail and turn and run back to where I came from, I'm worse off than if I face my fears. This has been a life lesson which has spanned all 30 years of my life. I admit, I've failed it a few times. I will never overcome fear in the sense of never experiencing it again. There is no one human being who can tell me honestly that they have no fear at all, ever. We all feel. Some just control it better than others. It is a part of being human. It's one of the things that we are born with.
Fear is a great teacher, and if we listen carefully to it, it can teach us the skills we need to conquer other life lessons. I have a choice... look willingly and with an open heart to the future, and move forward, to all that I dream of and hope for... or I can keep looking over my shoulder and avoid the challenges because of fear, and never get anywhere at all.
This piece is about my own dark place... where fear is blinding and deafening, but I choose to face it anyway, because I choose to step forward... to take another step through that dark place, to reach the path I'm meant to find.
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