I tend to face my fears to try to improve myself. I took a lot of speech classes because I was terrified of publicly speaking. I also went into ROTC because I was so timid and wanted to toughen up.
I'm going to share with you a conversation I had many years ago with my doctor. The background was the suicide of my then-best friend. It affected me very deeply and I made an appointment to see him. I told him I thought I was having a nervous breakdown. I got disoriented a couple of times on the way to her funeral and it scares me to death. So saw my doc the next day. We just chatted for awhile. There was nothing for him to examine. During the course of the conversation facing our fears came up. He told me that everyone without exception has fears of something. He said to visualize them as tigers pacing back and forth constantly in the distance but within view, ready to attack. He said you can either face them or avoid them. He said he avoids his tigers. My doctor! That's what he said! He avoids his tigers. He knows where they are so avoidance is easy. I never forgot that. I avoid my tigers too Didge. Thank you for your reply and Happy Sunday. Well Roger won the first set.Right now Nadal is ahead 4/1. Looks like he could take the second set. I hope it goes 5 sets and that you-know-who wins! :)
And you-know-who won in five. Yaaay! It was so good to see. The old Roger was back. We stayed with it for the presentation and the post match interview. What a great result!
Good story about the tigers. Your doctor was a smart man. Sometimes we have to choose which tigers we can defeat and are better left alone. Thanks for sharing that.
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