Face Your Fear

It Is Your Only Choice

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Continuing for the next few weeks, we will discuss how to use pain, how to live with a sense of urgency, how to battle fear, and ultimately how to use your time to live a more fulfilling life.

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Now onto the good stuff.

OMNIPRESENT FEAR

“The higher man is distinguished from the lower by his fearlessness and his readiness to challenge misfortune.”-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power.

It’s everywhere.

From our peers to our leaders, it seems that fear has crippled each and every one of them. Sure, they boast, they brag, they speak of lofty goals but we can see through the lies.

We can see the fear behind their empty words that paralyzes, cripples, and ultimately, defeats.

Why?

Because we all share that same fear as well. For the multitude, it determines the course of their lives.

And this fear never ends.

The creeping dread.

The constant companion.

The beast who cannot be contented.

The fear that inhabits you is something that cannot be avoided, try as you might.

Most do their best to mitigate it, to run from it, to hide.

Others ignore.

All partake in activities to ease the feeling in the pit of their stomachs, the anxiety that fills their souls, the doubt that clouds their minds.

They do anything and everything to avoid such feelings. There is always some trend, some foolish task that people join to avoid their fear. Quiet quitting, Tik-Tok challenges, career coaching, influencing, bitcoin, gluten free diets, yoga, group retreats, Discord, farm to table, Instagram, DAOs, Netflix binging, keto, CrossFit, gambling, the metaverse, NFTs, sea moss, VLOGS, juice cleansing, content creation, and more.

This is nothing new.

“They all fear death, but they want to hurry and cast away the time remaining between now and the grave. 'I can't wait till this day's over,' they say. 'I wish this week would end,' they say. 'I can't wait until next month,' they say. All of life they will ever know lies in the present breath that they are granted. But they, who would think us crazy for throwing away socks, throw away everything in their rush to obliterate their lives and be devoured all the sooner by their greatest fear. The end and its grave-mold. Their beginning is their end: a brief, nervous twitch of panic and dread, and nothing more.”-Nick Tosches, Me and the Devil

They will hashtag everything they do, document it in every way possible, and hope that it matters.

Hope that they matter in spite of their retreat from life.

Some may stick around to whatever they latched onto for a few months, some may not stick around at all.

But sooner or later, it will become too much.

Too much to do.

Too much to carry.

Too much to bear.

Yet your fear will remain. It may have even grown. This is enough to send even the bravest among us fleeing into the night.

But not you.

Your fear is something uniquely your own. While we all face similar feelings and obstacles, we each have our own demon to battle, our own monster to slay, our own war to wage.

Not for land or riches or prestige.

But for control of our mind, our mentality, and ultimately our actions.

For the control of our lives!

What must we do?

What can we do?

What course can we buy? What guru can we hire? Who can we follow? What medicine can we prescribe that will be mind altering and even life altering?