"It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person: Always do what you are afraid to do." Ralph Waldo Emerson

I've done this for the past few years, and I don't regret it. I constantly attempt those things that frighten or intimidate me most. Sometimes I fail and other times I succeed, but I always learn from it. I always feel a little stronger just for having tried. The thrill of doing it despite my fear leaves me euphoric, no matter the outcome.

This makes me think of Robert Frost's poem, "The Road Not Taken". When I am an old lady reflecting on my life, I'll say this: "I shall be telling this with a sigh/Somewhere ages and ages hence:/Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--/I took the one less traveled by,/And that has made all the difference."

Take refuge in truth.

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