Constant Companion

Everyone is predisposed to it, the fear and fretfulness of not knowing what the future beholds; the anxiety felt when thinking of what might be coming our way and the tension intuited when imagining the possible obstacles that may bump into us. This is when worrying appeals to us as our constant companion.

Fear comes in its own time for everyone, in its own way. What do we do when we sense it coming? Do we fight it? Do we question it and try to understand why we are feeling it? No we don’t. The best we can do is try to let ourselves feel it when it comes, to allow ourselves to be one with it, just go with the feeling and smile. We cannot reason with our emotions, nobody can and there comes a time when we determine that it is pointless to. The more we allow our body to feel it, the more we come to accept the emotion and this is when we become indomitable and decide to focus on the present, do what we want to do while allowing our anxiety to remain in the background. This is when we shift our focus to the topical and start believing that freezing won’t help, and this is when we realize that one-day, somehow, we won’t feel this way anymore. The best we can do is let ourselves feel it, and let go of it when we can….