Bedtime Breakdown

"We can't spend our lives waiting to live"
                             
                                                    -Tim Mcllrath


What does the word fear mean to us? Let's think about this for a moment before actually answering. Fear has many shapes and many forms. Franklin Delano Roosevelt made a statement that "The only thing we have  to fear, is fear itself". Maybe it is fear of failure that slows us down. Or maybe it is the fear of what others will think of us and our actions. Fear of the unknown.... Fear is all around us and it penetrates our minds with doubt.

Now then, let us liberate ourselves for just a moment. Think about what we would do with our lives if fear was taken out of it. Would you sacrifice those things you love for the things that are safe? Would there ever be the doubt of success, or would success come naturally in the absence of fear...

 Every moment we are alive is a moment we are closer to death, that's a fact. But why should that scare us? Maybe it's because most of us fear that we cannot accomplish our dreams in the short time we have on this earth. This is something we fear because we abide by everyone else's definition of success but our own. We find reasons to doubt our own personal success based off of the success of others. Instead of defining success by the portrayal of our peers. Let's begin to define our own success. Once we can do that, we can truly begin to live and be able to look back to realize, that not only did we live.... We succeeded.