Scary

Written in Jan of 2023 at a local cafe in Vienna, Austria (where I didn’t have cash and had to sit and wait for my friend to bail me out while the waitress loathed my existence).

It’s interesting how everything seems scary until you do it. Quitting a job, going to a new country — ordering food for the first time as a kid. Everything seems scary until you do it.

And then one day you do. You give that presentation, you take that new career path, you go to that new gym — you let yourself fall in love.

And suddenly it’s not so scary. You realize that the only thing that has stood in the way between you and what you’ve wanted to pursue is you.

Your fear, your thoughts — your perceptions.

Your limitations.

You.

What if those didn’t exist? Or rather, what if we were able to do the things anyway?

If we led with the knowing we have that it has always been okay — that it will always be okay rather than the fear that it won’t…

What would we do? Where would we be?

Who would we become?