The Blood & The Bones

It is ok to be scared … The greatest men I have ever known were all scared of something.

No human lives without some fear.

But what will you do with it?

Will you let it eat up the best parts of you. Cripple you, stifle you, change you into a person consumed with it? A shadow of yourself living under its wing?

Or will you let it kill the weakness in you so that you may move forward with a plan. Armed with the knowledge of what could hold you back, pull down.. the quicksand you should avoid, the land mines you navigate around, the cliff you know not to stand to close to the edge of. A person armed with the knowledge of what to actually be scared of and defeating or managing the fear instead of being its victim.

Fear is normal. But let it be the catalyst that’s drives you to bravery, to bigger things, to a greater self.

And not the weight tethered to your foot pulling you into your grave.

LL