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Do You Face Your Fears or Live Life Afraid?
This is always a choice. And the choice is always yours.
About the only certainty in life is uncertainty.
No matter what and how you plan, no matter what you prepare — the uncertain might well get in your way.
That’s because the one and only constant in the universe is change. And most change is utterly outside of your control.
This is where — I believe — almost every fear you and I face is based. After years of analysis, observation, and life experience, I’ve come to believe that the biggest fear of all is uncertainty.
But not simply the fear of uncertainty. Uncertainty is the root, the core. The real fear is the fear of suffering that might or might not happen.
Nobody likes to be in pain. There’s nobody I know who likes discomfort or any type of suffering — whether physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, or any combination therein.
To that end, some people will go to great lengths to avoid any and all suffering.
Hence, to a greater or lesser degree — they live life afraid. And the fear they face is largely intangible, and not the thing they’re truly afraid of; It’s suffering as a result of the given occurrence that they fear.
