Plea #76: Fear I fear the unknown. That's nothing new.
Everyone always does. But why should I fear opportunity?
I yearn for it every waking moment, and then when it finally comes, I want to cower.
My nerves tell me to be afraid.
I focus only on the daunting and potential for failure, with the potential for great success falling by the wayside.
We focus very little on the good in life.
Far too often, we get caught up in protecting ourselves from failure or hurt and miss all the potential for great things.
I'm gonna seize this opportunity. Failure's not an option.
Self-doubt be damned, I'm gonna pull this off.
And if I don't? I will next time.
And if I don't next time? I will, the time after that.
There's no punishment for failure.
I'll feel shame, maybe... But that's all in my head.
And what I'll receive more of, is experience.
I must first learn how to fail, to even begin learning to succeed.
And so I will try.
And when I fail, I'll try again, and when I fail again, at least I'll fail in a new way.
Eventually, I'll run out of ways to fail.
I won't have any option but to succeed.