Fear is one of the challenges that held us back from progressing and doing lots of things we would have loved to do, and because fear has the capacity to restrain us from many things, to progress and excel we must be ready to look fear in the eyes and say enough is enough; only then can we overcome it and live a more fulfilling life. Through the years I've been enveloped with different fears and have been privileged to overcome some, and in this article today I'll be talking about one of those I've been lucky enough to overcome and how it felt.
One of the fears that tormented me for years was that of love, and these came from heartbreak experience and the pain and disappointment that follow such experience. It wasn't a feeling I'd want anyone to experience at any point in time of their life because I know how disheartened it can be to see someone you trust betray you. I was left in a state of desolation twice when I had such experiences, and that led to me having a phobia for love and all that is associated with having feelings to the point of falling in love, but then I understood it's a necessity and the absence of it leads to loneliness, depression, and the like, even taking a toll on my health.
Seeing how abstinence from love for years didn't yield much benefit for me but instead took a negative toll on me, and the fact that age isn't on my side, I despise and let go of the pains and disappointment I've had from heartbreak that made me have a phobia of love and go on a mission to look for someone I can not only love but also trust and feel safe to be vulnerable around, and when I finally found one, I must say that my heart and life genuinely knew peace thereafter, making it one of the best days of my life thus far.
Since that time I overcame that fear and gave love a chance once again, my life has known peace and joy like never before; even my health has improved. That's in regard to the depression and blood pressure I used to have due to God knows what in the past. So that's about it on the fear I had, what led to me having it, how I overcame it, and how my life has been since overcoming it.
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