MY OWN DAMN MANUAL - CHAPTER THREE

Chapter Three in the weekly chapter installments of, My Own Damn Manual is to address the part of life where things just don’t seem alright.  There have been times in my life where I have let worry and fear consume me.  I read or heard somewhere that fear is an irrational feeling.  That being scared or fearful of the future is an act of insanity.  It mentioned something like, “How can you be scared or fearful when you have no idea if the outcome is going to be bad?”.  The pessimist in me says, I sure as fuck can be scared about the unknown.  It’s the unknown that’s the most scary, duh!  Am I right?

Something that I have learned over time (thirty plus some years) is that it’s okay to be fearful or scared.  It’s okay to feel irrational from time to time.  It’s what you do with it. 

This chapter is short.  It’s not funny.  It’s real.  Like the smallest portion of meat and potatoes you’ve ever had that filled you up for an entire week.  You catch what I sayin’ here, right?

Fear is okay.  The point of it all is to not let it debilitate you and hold you back.  Would you let a significant other hold you back?  I don’t think so!  So fuck fear.  You can allow it to dinner, like that crappy relative or friend that comes over on the holidays, eats you out of house and home and then complains the entire time.  You put up with it and then you swiftly drive their broke ass home when the holiday is over and get on with your life.

There you have it.  Suck it up, feel it, move past it, and go for it!  Whatever, 'IT' may be for you!