I am realizing more and more that I am pretty fearless. I’m not afraid to experience new things at all and the more I think about it, the more I realize that I have always been this way.
I’ve never been afraid to:
- travel to new places: I love Spain
- try new foods: alligator’s ok…
- go skydiving: one of the best experiences of my life!
- meet new people and to put myself in unfamiliar social situations: I love crashing parties
- ask stupid questions: how else am I going to learn?
- try different things: I’ve had close to 20 different jobs and I can fix just about anything
- put my feelings out there and risk getting hurt: how else do you find the greatest love?
- learn new things: I love challenging myself intellectually
- join new groups: I’ve played soccer on probably 15 different teams
The bottom line is I have not found anything I am too afraid to try and having that attitude has made huge differences in my life. It has kept me young (not that I’m old yet) and made me wiser.
If you live by your fears then you don’t actually ever DO anything. I would hate to look back on the last 10 years and say I didn’t do any of the things I did. I have enjoyed every bit of it and don’t regret doing any of it.
Now, sometimes I might have gotten a little impatient and jumped in too quickly and regretted the way I did something but none of my regrets involve NOT doing something. That, I would regret for sure because I wouldn’t have learned everything I have by doing.
And… I’ve had a lot of fun doing it, too;)