It's The Fear, isn't it? We all fight The Fear. 3 quotes that I relied upon when I was driving Route 66, racing ahead of The Fear, way back on Thread 4 or 5:
Eleanor Roosevelt: "You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do." [The only way past The Fear is through The Fear.]
Louisa May Alcott: "I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship." [Love this one! You can't learn to cope until there's a reason to cope!]
Marcus Aurelius: "If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment." [Yeah! I make myself afraid! I can UNmake myself afraid, too! Old Marcus had serious mojo.]
Love it, believe it, espouse it...oh, but live it? Harder...
