We are risk assessors. Our brains are programmed to constantly alarm us of potential risks and threats.
A simple search on Wikipedia will give you:
"Risk assessment is the determination of quantitative or qualitative estimate of risk related to a well-defined situation and a recognized threat (also called hazard)."
"An acceptable risk is a risk that is understood and tolerated usually because the cost or difficulty of implementing an effective countermeasure for the associated vulnerability exceeds the expectation of loss."
The issue in all of this? The constant 'what ifs' .
What if you fail? But what if you win?
There is so much greatness in all of us. So much beauty and strength.
Dare to amaze yourself. Dare to scare yourself. You will never know real pain and what you are made of otherwise.
I feel that most people live in a state of anxiety and constant self protection. The best in life is out for us for the taking, we just have to dare to work hard, invest our emotions, make serious commitments and be consistent. Life is truly a gift and a chess game I would dare to say, but not making any move to step towards who we truly desire to be is also a plan.
Daring to love is a risk but one of the most rewarding. Daring to care and to open up makes us vulnerable but without friends what else is there? What is the point of it all if your not going to suffer and manage to gather more strength after your failures?
I believe there is so much greatness in all of us, if only we would dare to dare. Dare to look at yourself as a full potential. We train day by day not to survive only, but to live.
It is easy to feel scared and to choose to do little, the convenient. The easy way out won't give you though the greatness and satisfaction that we as human search for at the end of each day. It is easy to feel scared, but it will never teach you much.
There is so much greatness in all of us. So much beauty and strength.
Dare to amaze yourself. Dare to scare yourself. You will never know real pain and what you are made of otherwise.
Dance with your FEAR. Embrace her with all your being. Scare her back :)
Love as always,
Ruxandra