These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world. Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Is fear holding you back from living your fullest life and being truly self expressed? Put yourself in the shoes of the you who’s already lived your dream and write out the answers to the following:
Is the insecurity you’re defending worth the dream you’ll never realize? or the love you’ll never venture? or the joy you’ll never feel?
Will the blunder matter in 10 years? Or 10 weeks? Or 10 days? Or 10 minutes?
Can you be happy being anything less than who you really are?
Now Do. The Thing. You Fear.
My response:
I fear delving into my dissertation and really working on it until completion. I get gung ho about projects and become obsessed with completing it. I want desperately to just take a week and go crazy and write and read non-stop, but I have a family and a job, and they need me, too. I fear also that I will never complete the dissertation because I am afraid of delving into it. I want to be a doctor of education. I want to know I completed this. I want the students to stop looking at me disappointedly when I tell them I am not a doctor yet. The fear is certainly less than the joy I would feel, and certainly not worth it.
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