Abby AndertonGrade 11 Peer Guide and Head of Service at WGHS October 31st, Halloween, the one night a year where streets all over the world are filled with people from all sorts of different backgrounds dressed head to toe in costumes of the age old monsters we feared lay under our beds, in our cupboards or in the attic. Somehow, on this particular night, we all feel compelled to face those monsters, face those childhood fears of ours. But what I want to know is why it is only once a year that we do this and what makes us so unable to do the same with the fears preventing us from being the best versions of ourselves; preventing us from being the people we have always dreamed about being. How can we be so afraid of stepping into the unknown, if what we are afraid of is what we have not yet experienced? I challenge you to sit down and think about what you fear the most, to maybe even write these fears down, and then take a leap and delve into a world where those fears don’t exist. How much more could you see yourself doing? I would say that this little bit of introspection is the first step to conquering our fears. We begin to realize how dangerous our comfort zones can actually become because they are no longer keeping us safe, they are keeping us behind. The moment we start running into the things that scare us the most is the moment we start living. Start to think of your fears as a good thing; instead of being something to run away from, treat them as something to run towards. Facing your fears is what bridges the divide between you and your biggest hopes, desires and opportunities. So start today, start small but start and if you don’t know where to start, take inspiration from the poem below and start where you stand. Poem: Start where you stand By Berton Braley Start where you stand and never mind the past, The past won't help you in beginning new, If you have left it all behind at last Why, that's enough, you're done with it, you're through; This is another chapter in the book, This is another race that you have planned, Don't give the vanished days a backward look, Start where you stand. The world won't care about your old defeats If you can start anew and win success, The future is your time, and time is fleet And there is much of work and strain and stress; Forget the buried woes and dead despairs, Here is a brand new trial right at hand, The future is for him who does and dares, Start where you stand. Old failures will not halt, old triumphs aid, To-day's the thing, to-morrow soon will be; Get in the fight and face it unafraid, And leave the past to ancient history; What has been, has been; yesterday is dead And by it you are neither blessed nor banned, Take courage, man, be brave and drive ahead, Start where you stand.
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