"Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth." --Pema Chodron
"Love your sense of fear if you feel you're still alive." --Me... at 17.
I divide fear into two categories: good fear (or productive fear) and bad fear (or unproductive fear).
Bad fear makes me question myself and my abilities without any real consequence other than making me give in sooner than I otherwise would. But, any bad fear can be changed into good fear.
Good fear feeds me. It gets me to step on a stage to read my words, to tell someone how I feel, to try something for the first time, or to hold up a sign at a protest.
I love that feeling: the burning in my limbs and chest that washes away with action in waves of courage and energy.
I love fear in this sense, the fear that leads to something great.
--Arielle