MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

OTHER SIDE OF FEAR

There is a “glass wall” in our lives: One side is “safe”, our “comfort zone”; the other side beckons of the “unknown” and often that which we “fear”. So sad that so most will never move from the former side of that invisible wall. But those that say “screw it” and take that step of faith to move past it will be the ones that live a life worth telling, a story with lessons learnt through experience, and a testimony that will help enhance the lives of those who hear and see it.

As a child we have no “fear”. Yet somewhere along the way so many become “conditioned” to the world’s way of thinking or have no faith, and fear enters their life. Fear of anything and everything, nothing more trivial than another. Those few who truly have “no fear” are few indeed, and if they were honest with themselves, they will know that deep down there are fears that even they cannot acknowledge to themselves. Yet, there might truly be no fear, coming from a deep seated faith in something bigger and greater than anyone can or will ever understand. And that faith is what “allows” them to move from the “comfort zone” to the “other side of fear” and let them truly live.

There is FREEDOM in “fearing” but getting out there and doing it anyway. There is an exhilaration in taking risks, a thrill that cannot be experienced by being “safe”, a real joy in letting your spirit “fly” and embracing the “moments” that come, giving “over” to the childlike innocence and curiosity to explore life and all it has to offer.

Sometimes those living on the other side of fear look at those “inside” the “safety” of the “glasshouse” and wonder how they can live thus, desiring to see them step “through” the portal into the “real” world they exist in so that they too can truly know what it is like to LIVE. There is life on one side of the glass wall, but those on the other side of that wall are ALIVE with the life that only freedom can give.

You have a choice: Stay inside your comfort zone or get OUT of it. If you’ve been on both sides, then you know the only “logical” choice. Do you want to merely survive, or do you want to experience life in all the wonder and magnificence that it SHOULD be lived in? Think about it. “Evolution” and “becoming” is all about moving from strength to strength, one height to another, touching one star and then another and another, falling and rising, loving and losing and rediscovering new life, and none of that can be found INSIDE a “comfort zone”. Life is meant to be lived OUTSIDE the boundary of “should”, so why not let yourself smash that glass wall and “understand”!

© 2014 Rosie Chee

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

OTHER SIDE OF FEAR

There is a “glass wall” in our lives: One side is “safe”, our “comfort zone”; the other side beckons of the “unknown” and often that which we “fear”. So sad that so most will never move from the former side of that invisible wall. But those that say “screw it” and take that step of faith to move past it will be the ones that live a life worth telling, a story with lessons learnt through experience, and a testimony that will help enhance the lives of those who hear and see it.

As a child we have no “fear”. Yet somewhere along the way so many become “conditioned” to the world’s way of thinking or have no faith, and fear enters their life. Fear of anything and everything, nothing more trivial than another. Those few who truly have “no fear” are few indeed, and if they were honest with themselves, they will know that deep down there are fears that even they cannot acknowledge to themselves. Yet, there might truly be no fear, coming from a deep seated faith in something bigger and greater than anyone can or will ever understand. And that faith is what “allows” them to move from the “comfort zone” to the “other side of fear” and let them truly live.

There is FREEDOM in “fearing” but getting out there and doing it anyway. There is an exhilaration in taking risks, a thrill that cannot be experienced by being “safe”, a real joy in letting your spirit “fly” and embracing the “moments” that come, giving “over” to the childlike innocence and curiosity to explore life and all it has to offer.

Sometimes those living on the other side of fear look at those “inside” the “safety” of the “glasshouse” and wonder how they can live thus, desiring to see them step “through” the portal into the “real” world they exist in so that they too can truly know what it is like to LIVE. There is life on one side of the glass wall, but those on the other side of that wall are ALIVE with the life that only freedom can give.

You have a choice: Stay inside your comfort zone or get OUT of it. If you’ve been on both sides, then you know the only “logical” choice. Do you want to merely survive, or do you want to experience life in all the wonder and magnificence that it SHOULD be lived in? Think about it. “Evolution” and “becoming” is all about moving from strength to strength, one height to another, touching one star and then another and another, falling and rising, loving and losing and rediscovering new life, and none of that can be found INSIDE a “comfort zone”. Life is meant to be lived OUTSIDE the boundary of “should”, so why not let yourself smash that glass wall and “understand”!

© 2014 Rosie Chee

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

DO WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO FOR YOU

Life is always going to be full of things that we have no control over, no matter how much we wish in our hearts that it would change, or that people would change, and SEE us deep inside our soul for who we are and could be, and understand and appreciate what we have to give and offer. Sometimes the people we love the most are the people who we should NOT even care about, the people we should let GO of, because they are not the people who are THERE walking beside us through life, whether by some circumstances they cannot control even if they want to, or they simply don’t care.

The love I loved the most I lost before I even had a real chance to have it and know what it was like, taken from me by the one I loved the most because they did not have the courage or the strength in them to believe in something that could have been the most beautiful thing that life might ever have chanced them with. And even though I was ready to reach out my hand and step into that chance, I was pushed back and thrown down, cast away and let fall like a star falls from the sky in the deepest dark of night, a bright flash of light fading from existence, so fast that I wonder if anyone even noticed it was gone.

Some of the deepest sorrows we hold close when we need to let them GO. We hold onto memories and hope and faith when we should long have moved ON. We let it eat away at our souls, unconsciously destroying ourselves from WITHIN, until we are but shadows haunting this world with our presence, because we are no longer fully alive, lost and wandering, not wanting to find our way, because our way is gone from us and all that is left is the darkness that consumes what is left of our hearts, which are exhausted and just want to STOP and sleep and never wake up.

But that is not living, only merely existing and if we merely exist we may as well BE dead. Even though it hurts more than anything else ever might, we HAVE to open our eyes and realize what we are doing to ourselves, that life was NOT meant to be lived in darkness, our hearts not meant to lose hope, our souls not meant to be cast from the heavens into the pits of hell, not meant to STOP living, nor stop in our journey at all. We are meant to keep MOVING, moving FORWARD, because just because one person does not care enough about our soul does not mean that WE should give up on it as well.

We MUST keep moving forward, even if we don’t want to. We MUST do it for ourselves, because we know deep down in our innermost core that it is the BEST thing to do. It may take time as you grieve, to come out of the shadows, a mere whisper of life as you cautiously step back into the journey that is waiting for you. DON’T let someone else compromise your life and how it should be lived. Don’t let them take away your joy, your happiness, your ability to think and feel and wonder. Even if they are the best thing that could have ever happened to you, if they cause you to be like this, then they truly are NOT, and you must do what you know in your heart you NEED to do for YOU to LIVE your life the way you were MEANT to.

© Rosie Chee