Day 22: The Four Fears That Ran My Life

For forty years, four fears ran my life without my even knowing it. Fear of abandonment made me push people away before they could leave me. Fear of loss made me cling to things long after they were gone. Fear of failure made me stay in jobs that were killing my spirit because leaving felt too risky. Fear of rejection made me hide my true self, say what I thought others wanted to hear, and shrink myself to fit into rooms where I never really belonged. Every decision I made was fear wearing a different mask. When I started lying down with my eyes open and watching my thoughts like waves, I finally saw those fears. They appeared as waves — big, scary waves at first. But as I watched them, they lost their power. I saw the mask. And once you see the mask, you can stop being fooled by it.