Tuesday, June 14, 2011

#Trust30 online initiative - a 30-day writing challenge - Part 12 - Fear

Fear by Lachlan Cotter


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.
(Author: Lachlan Cotter)

Fear by Andrew Cairns

The daily grind, the pressure to follow the accepted route of society, to do the acceptable job, live in the reasonable safe place; is the fear of lack of job / home / environment security holding me back from some unfulfilled dream? Perhaps the dream of travelling and living in some different places appeals to me - the call of the wild!! Finding a place (or places) to live and some useful occupation (with the possibility to earn a living :)) where I can feel more free / less constrained / more in touch with nature... Now do...

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