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A great topic is going on at The Back Porch<\/a>. It’s all about fear.
\nFear (like racism, hatred, and greed) is taught… it’s not a “natural instinct”.
\nBet you didn’t know that.<\/p>\n

Whether it’s a horrible (traumatic or embarrassing) life experience, or some neurotic lunatic drilled it in your head when you were younger. Think about how many times your mother stopped you from grabbing something off the stove… the fear didn’t set in until you finally got burned, didn’t it?<\/p>\n

You became afraid of the dark after you saw your first horror movie, and that pile of clothes on the chair began to take the form of that hideous creature in the movie… just waiting to kill you in your sleep. Or you won’t get up to pee in the middle of the night for fear of being confronted by a ghost of a battered woman with slit wrists screaming at you.<\/p>\n

Fear comes from losing control over your circumstances. When it’s out of your hands, you can become scared shitless real fast.<\/p>\n

The only known cure for fear is to meet it head on. When you’re on the edge of the cliff, and nowhere to go but straight down…. sometimes the only thing you can do is take that step forward, and take a “leap of faith”… I’ve done it more times than I can count, and something has always caught me.<\/p>\n

Like I said, it’s out of your hands. What have you got to lose?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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