Avoiding what you fear - or not as the case may be.
These past months there is something I have been confronted with over and over again. It seems to me that when ever you try to avoid the things you fear you end up aiming straight for them despite any amount of effort you put in to steer in the opposite direction.
In relationships this is really obvious. For example I have met a good number of people who will hide the truth from another person in order to not hurt that person’s feelings.
The result however, is that most of the time (probably all the time) that person ends up finding out what ever was being hidden from them, at which point they are very hurt to have not been told about it.
So by avoiding speaking about it for fear of hurting them, they hurt them more than if they had spoken despite the fear.
I am willing to feel the fear and do it anyway in every single situation like this that I encounter.
Have you noticed this pattern ? I invite you to share your thoughts and experiences in a comment below.














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Reply #2 on : Mon August 15, 2011, 14:12:49
Reply #1 on : Sun August 14, 2011, 10:58:37