What Eats Fear

Fear

I am having a conversation today, and in the context of the conversation the topic of being afraid of talking to someone about something came up. The specific topic isn't really important here, but the fact that someone could be afraid to talk is. I have definately been there. I have been afraid to say somethings to some people. I know that there have been times that my own children have been faced with telling me something that they are not proud about and have been afraid to speak to me.

This is an everyday type of thing. Perhaps you share in my observation here. Afraid to talk with a partner, a friend, a employer, a collegue, a parent, the list goes on and on. Sometimes we will go to great length to avoid these conversations.

Here is my struggle today. In many cases the results of the conversations, onced faced, are much less serious then we imagine them to be. In hindsight we often see our original fear as silly. But that is only from hindsight. We had to live through that fear to see that it was not necessary to begin with.

So today I question,'what eats fear'. I have many ideas, but no solutions.

Perhaps fear is my teacher. Perhaps I can take each instance and learn something from it and compound the experiences so that I don't have to learn any one twice. Eventyally I could reduce the amount of fear I experience. Maybe that is one answer to my question, "what eats fear?', knowledge and experience.

I don't think that this is the end of this particular topic, but for now, I will lay it to rest.

Thank You