"Courage is being scared to death but saddling-up anyway." - John Wayne
Many things in life scare us. Facing a new position in life, needing to stare down someone or some situation that is filling us with dread, or even dispelling some rational or irrational fear and then deciding to push ahead with our lives anyway. The list is immense and virtually endless. The thing to remember is that there is nothing in life that we cannot face but none of this means that you're not going to be filled with fear over it!
I was recently reminded yet again about the vast constructs of fear and how it can so easily stall any of us in our tracks simply because we choose to allow it to glue our feet in place and to cage us. Everyone in their own way holds some understanding about this feeling while some hold much more intimate understandings about the ways that their fears have kept them from moving forward.
Nothing and nobody ever said that life was or ever could be a cake walk although I must admit I never really understood the concept of walking on top of a cake. What I do understand intimately however is how fear can work its way into people's daily lives. I have met souls who have had their paths almost or virtually stalled because they were so fearful of leaving their homes, or facing someone, or a new situation down that could alter their paths to much better ends. I've also encountered and witnessed souls who somehow regardless of any odds expressed the ability to punch their ways through incredible walls and then they walked their ways to some form of success
