Fear

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear."
-Mark Twain

Brilliant. There are so many brilliant people out there and that is one of the reasons I am either always reading a book, or reading online. I came across this quote from Mark Twain tonight and it made me think. Actually I was reading one of FDR's biographies and paused thinking about his inaugural speech. The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. I guess at that point I was kind of stuck on this fear thing. We all have fears, we just don't always have the courage to face them. No one is born with courage, nor is anyone born with fear.

Without anything to be afraid of there is no need for courage, its just another everyday happening. Courage is being afraid, but manning up and taking care of business anyways. How awesome it must be to say some shit like that one day and be quoted by millions of people.

I am far from fearless. I am not afraid of the normal things. My friends are all afraid of dying, spiders, gang members, STD's. OK. I am afraid of STD's, I prefer not to die right now but am ready to go whenever, spiders I can step on and I grew up in SoCal so gang bangers make me chuckle. Other than heights and relationship things I don't have too many fears. Sharing things, that's always been a fear of mine. Maybe more will hit me later. Maybe I will stay in denial about them for another few years. Maybe I should be afraid to die, maybe that is a whole other issue.


"Nothing is life is to be feared. It is only to be understood."

-Marie Currie

That sounds pretty awesome as well.