I speak so much about fear and pray for becoming fearless. I read this poem by Khalil Gibran, and it is titled ‘Fear’.

Fear

It is said that before entering the sea
A river trembles with fear.
She looks back at the path she has travelled,
From the peaks of the mountains,
The long winding road crossing forests and villages.
And so, in front of her,
She sees an ocean so vast,
that to enter
there seems nothing more than to disappear forever.
But there is no other way.
The river cannot go back.
Nobody can go back.
To go back is impossible inexistence.
The river needs to take the risk
Of entering the ocean
Because only then will fear disappear,
Because that’s where the river will know
It’s not about disappearing in the ocean
But of becoming the ocean.

Aim Hrim Klim

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