003: The lion of your fears is a cat.

Does fear help? I mean, its a good emotion. It gets you active. Makes you more conscious of and ready to deal with possible threat. But, could it often be why you see more threat than there is?

Beyond a certain threshold, I would say, your fear has shown you to be clinically insane.

Most of what you refrain yourself from doing, most of what you humble yourself to do out of fear, has been not for what is known to happen out of doing otherwise. But rather for what for what you thought might happen. Which your own actions after you faced some of the fears you did have shown over and over again, you were being too creative with your imaginations.

Stranger looks intimidating on the street. Stranger tells you to pick up the trash. So you … pick up the trash because? Because he.. might what? Job interviews are usually failed. You prepared for the job interview. Or lets say worst case scenario, you did not. So during the job interview you notice the questions are somewhat tricky, so you … shake and panic? Because that would… what?

You are lost and need to ask for directions. Everyone close by is a stranger. You can speak the language they speak. But you are afraid to ask anyone because… what? What? The strangers could bite you with their poison fangs?

You want to tell them something. But you don't know how they might react. Actually, you can with very high accuracy map out all possible reactions. None of those include your death. All these are reactions that are momentary. And soon a memory. But you quiver and stay silent about it. Because… what?

How much are you going to keep yourself from experiencing, how much humiliation are you going to accept that you could turn down, just for your own imaginations about what could happen?

You are not insane. Well, you still are if you keep acting on imaginations. My point is you can heal. But you are going to have to prove that to yourself daily for the healing to happen.

So go on forth into the world and pet those lions cats.