What is fear? When your hands tremble and your knees shake, when you fidget with panic or stand paralysed in shock. Fear. When you feel sick with worry and you can barely breathe. The pounding of your heart, a hammer on your chest. That is fear. Some people are scared of heights. Some people are scared of snakes. Some of us are scared of being alone, being forgotten. Some fears have a root, a reason. Maybe you woke up as a child to see a monstrous, eight-legged spider in your room, and although the memory drifted away, the fear, the shock, remained. Perhaps you witnessed something awful, something you never want to see again. Or like all human beings, you’re scared of the unknown. That big, botttomless void that asks you, what if? And what if? What if you let your fear consume you, let it control you, bow your head and live under it? When you give in to fear, it defeats you. It becomes you. But you can fight it, even if you think it’s too late. You can overcome it. When you are strong, your fear means nothing. Fear only gives you barriers, but when you are strong there is nothing that can stop you. When you are strong, you can defeat it. Be strong.
