Fear is my teacher

Christine McDougall
1 min readMay 13, 2023

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Collapsing context strips nuance.

Fear is not bad. It is there to put a break on extreme risk with potentially fatal consequences.

Propagating fear to diminish human optionality is to use fear as a weapon.

A class of people know how to use the weapon of fear with extraordinary skill.

And then there is our choice to live in fear, or to overcome it.

I am learning to surf. (I believe I will be learning to surf for as long as I am surfing.) Climbing over the mountain of my fear is what is limiting me from going to the next level.

In surfing, fear is my teacher as well as my brake.

I contemplate those people in the world who fear bombs falling on their roofs every night. Days, months, years of this kind of fear. It is not a way to live. At some point, we must overcome fear even when the risks are high.

Good fear bad fear. Like most things, it depends on the context.

Photo Taken May 14th 2023

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Christine McDougall
Christine McDougall

Written by Christine McDougall

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