What are you afraid of?

It is so easy to become so ingrained into thinking that the way it is, is the way it will always be. The hope starts to fade and the emptiness starts to take hold, wondering, fear and discouragement sets in. It doesn't have to be that way, but for some reasons it is a struggle to see our way clear. Our hearts want to feel something and sometimes it may seem that it is pain, but it is a feeling too. We struggle and in the struggling we fight to see through the clouds, through the darkness, we seek to find truth, but even when we seek others they don't know the truth, because they speak only on what they would do, just how much better things would be if. I have found that when the "if" word is introduced into anything then it isn't the truth. Maybe it is only me, but maybe it isn't.

Life is a struggle, does it have to be, I don't have an answer for that, but what I do know is that when we introduce doubt and confusion it will only breed more. It is only when we acknowledge the fact of where we are can we actually move out of that place. To many people remain stuck, because they are afraid to see life for today, they play the if game, they live in yesterday, they seek the truth from others and others lead us down paths we feel lost and alone. Not their fault, but when we acknowledge our fears, our struggles and the truth as we see it, only then do we start to break the bond that has held us for so long.

We are afraid to talk to the one person we say we trust with our lives (we loe). We are afraid to admit our failures, we are afraid to talk about life, because life is so confusing. We struggle to see the truth that is right before us and yet we say we are lost. Is the answer to admit that we are lost? I think the point of this is, that the more we admit to our defeat, the stronger we get. In order to stand up, we first need to fall down. And admitting that we fell is difficult to do, admitting we that we are hurting and lost is even more difficult. We can share with complete strangers, but not the ones we love. Our minds have fooled us into thinking that the ones who love us will reject us, but that is all a lie. We need to start admitting our hurts, failures, pains, fears in order to be free from them.

Today what are you afraid of? Today is the first day and today you can start making changes, but change begins with you. How can we expect the ones we love to open up, when we are afraid to do the same thing. What will happen, take a deep breath and know that you can do this, that the first step may be you, but the final step may be the one you are with. Today, don't give up and today is the first day of the rest of your life. What are you afraid of?