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What is fear? Is fear really just a feeling? Or is it something that we learn as we grow older? Are you born with it? Does it affect everyone in the same way when it comes down to it? Is there more than one type of fear? People fear for their own lives. They fear for the lives of their loved ones. They fear for people they have never even met. Why do we let this one four letter word have such an effect on our lives? Can you learn not to fear fear? If you never fear anything are you better or worse off? Does fear even really exist? Or is it something completely different that everyone just put under an umbrella to simplify the word. There is no bigger fear than fear itself. Or. The is no bigger fear than having nothing in life to fear. Fear keeps our realities in check, but it also shows us how to find courage to challenge our selves. Fear keeps us real and intact, it keeps us knowing that we are not invincible. Are all fears when broken down about death and the unknown, the things that we don’t understand?

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There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.  ~George S. Patton Many of our fears are tissue-paper-thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them. ~Brendan Francis There is much in the world to make us afraid.  There is much more in our faith to make us unafraid.  ~Frederick W. Cropp Fear is faith that it won't work out.  ~Sister Mary TrickyFear is the highest fence.  ~Dudley Nichols Obstacles are like wild animals.  They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can.  If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.  ~Orison Swett Marden To fear is one thing.  To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.  ~Katherine Paterson, Jacob Have I Loved To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.  ~Bertrand RussellFear is just your feelings asking for a hug.  ~Danielle Sanchez Those who fear life are already three parts dead.  ~Bertrand Russell Fear makes us feel our humanity.~Benjamin Disraeli There are times when fear is good.  It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.  ~Aeschylus Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light?  ~Maurice Freehill Feed your faith and your fears will starve to death. ~Author Unknown Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile... initially scared me to death.  ~Betty Bender The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.  ~Lady Bird Johnson ________________________________________________________ On a personal level: I’m scared shitless, and it’s the most exciting feeling in the world. Scared that I’ll never find where I really am supposed to be, but excited for the journey that will possibly lead me there. Worried that I am missing great moments, with friends and family, at home. But know that I’ve experienced things in the last two months that some people never get to experience in a life time. Scared of what I’m really capable of when I push my fears out of the way. Scared to wipe away the lack of self confidence I have in my self, for fear I will have nothing left to hide my true self behind. Scared this isn’t actually possible. Scared I’ll never really know who my true self really is. Yet, learning how to let me; be me. Learning that my weaknesses, aren’t really that important, but make me who I am. Yet not forgetting that my way of living life like an open book may have its bad points, but they don’t matter.  Learning that your fears may be the most powerful thing in your life, and make you feel like your alive! Panic at the thought of doing a thing is a challenge to do it.  ~Henry S. Haskins I think this sums up something I have learned thus far with this trip: “Keep on loving what is true and the world will come to you, you can find it in yourself!”