“Try a thing you haven’t tried before three times – once to get over the fear, once to find out how to do it, and a third time to find out whether you like it or not” ~ Virgil Thomson
First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt once said, “Do one thing every day that scares you.” Whether I intend to or not, whether I want to or not, I do the same frightening thing every day. I can tell you I don’t like it, and I most assuredly haven’t figured out how to make it work.
Thin spiral notebook 
I think, lately, I am scared of being scared.
Isn’t that ironic?
I wonder all the time “what” it is I am truly frightened of. Perhaps that why I don’t write anymore.
I’m so sorry I missed so much of your writing lately, but I hope to catch up a little today. XO
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There are days that I’m scared that I will get everything I want, then I won’t know what to do with it.
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Oh, yes! I believe for me there is a bit of that too. (It’s good to have a friend , like you, who understands. Thank you for that.)
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There is a quote by Marianne Williamson that says what I feel, “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.”
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(whispering) my light is dim, lost. I am searching for my lost light.
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It’s still there… in your boys, in your heart. We just have to give it a little air, and you’ll see it flair up again.
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Being with people scares me, but the right sort of person, makes me wonder what I was scared about in the first place .
Cherryx
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Agree. Today I ran 8 miles…I hate it and when I’m by myself (like today) I am afraid…not for being alone, I’m pretty scary-enough to get left alone- but scared I’ll not be able to finish or that I will fail…so whether I fail or not I think I kinda win cuz I tried…today rocked but there’s always tomorrow 😬
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Every time I hit publish, it scares me. The day it doesn’t, I quit.
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Sometimes, just getting out of bed scares me.
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