“There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.”

-Afred Hitchcock 

In our modern world, the culture of smarter phones, interstates, skyscrapers and electricity, a healthy fear for our own individual thriving isn’t even in the top five. Wild outbreaks of diseases that were rampant a century ago do not exist now, and crime is more noticed and extingushied faster than ever before. 

So what is there to be afraid of?

The answer-a constant fear of failure.

Our schools, marketers, and culture reinforce this fear daily. From the heartbreak of psoriasis to the humiliation of underarm odor, but most of all, the terror of trying something and failing.

As Seth Godin says, “In just a few generations, we’ve gone from “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself” to “The fear we feel is the fear of freedom.”

Our life’s stories, unfortunately, are guided by the narrative of failing. Worst, we’ve expanded our internal screenplay that we can’t help but associate freedom with failure.

Think about this statement-If you’re not willing to be tired, you can’t run. 

To start running is to start being tired. In the same regard, If we are not willing to imagine failure, then we will never be able to run free.