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An Open Letter to my Fears
Confronting my demons is the best way to overcome them.
Dear self-doubt, low self-esteem, and the fears that are the base of both,
I know that part of the reason you are here is to keep me safe. You are protecting me from potential failure, loss, and destruction of a sort. The comfort zones I have established in my life are comfortable, and moving out of them has a lot of potential for terrible, bad, no-good things.
It’s possible my goals are foolish and ludicrous. Maybe what I am seeking to do with my life is idiotic. I get that, and I can see why you are being so protective of me. You want me to be safe and comfortable, and not at risk for potential loss.
I have to see potential over problems
Certainly, I can allow you to keep on whispering from my subconscious into my conscious mind all about how I am unworthy, undeserving, incapable, and deluded. I can give in and accept that the number of problems I might encounter along the way could wreck everything I have.
But that’s not the truth, is it? Yeah, the worst-case scenario is that I screw-up so big that everyone abandons me and I am thrown out of my packs and left to utterly and completely fend for myself. I am pretty sure unless I perpetrate an atrocity of some sort I will land somewhere…
