It has come to my recent attention that people are SO scared.
We are scared of death, spiders, war, heartbreak, public speaking...etc. We are filled with all these insecurities and all this apprehension.
More than anything, I've come to realize that we are absolutely PETRIFIED to live.
When I was a baby, my mom would warn me about everything.
A perfect example would be a roller coaster. My mom was convinced that as soon as I got to the very top of the circle with my head swaying, dangling, the entire roller coaster would shut down, and I would fall to my untimely demise. Because of hearing the same story about how one roller coaster in this one amusement park had this one tragic accident, I knew that I would never dare to ride a roller coaster.
I did.
It was awesome.
And that's when I knew that my mom was just being a mom - not ever wanting to see me get hurt.
Which leads me to my next point...
I am a girl. I hear devastating stories about how "he" hurt "me" after we were together for "this period of time" and because of that, I will "never trust or love" another "he" again.
When did we become so afraid to LOVE?
When was it okay to leave a person emotionally hanging? To unleash all our nurtured hatred and insecurities on another person? To always fail to trust? To not go with our gut/heart that someone is worth it?
Current pop culture has left its audience feeling absolutely defeated. There can be no love if every movie involves cheating or artificial insemenation.
There can be no good in love if every song talks about how unrequited love still ends up smashing our hearts into tiny smitherines.
We are on earth to live.
We are here to care, to laugh, to grow, to understand, to take chances, to be original, to LOVE.
One question still remains: is it possible to overcome our fears?
