February: On Life

February 20

Today's reflection was inspired by a quote from The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane. 

Fear is powerful, yes.

But it is only as strong as you allow it to be.

This thing you have feared for so long, this thing you built up in your mind to be some great and terrible beast that would devour you on sight, it turns out, is not so hideous as you had imagined. 

It is wretched and weak and though you could slay it now, it is not worth your time because you see now that it was nothing but fear, nothing but a part of your own mind that you have created. 

You tell it to be gone and to never return, and so it goes. 

And so you are set free.

• Reflection title: “Here Be Dragons.” “So what?”
• Creative inspiration: Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage
• Reflection Question: What fear have I granted undue power over me? Can I see it for what it is and carry on?