Fear Is Expensive

Fear often has a way of “disguising” itself as wisdom. It sometimes introduces itself as caution, responsibility, or realism. It convinces us that it is protecting us from disappointment, embarrassment, rejection, failure, and uncertainty. Sometimes it does… But I have come to realize that fear rarely informs us of its price.

And fear is expensive.

Not always financially (though it can be). More often, fear charges us in currencies far more valuable.

Time.

Energy.

Attention.

Possibility.

Joy.

Travel.

Potential.

Careers.

Dreams.

Relationships.

Entire versions of ourselves.

The tragedy of fear is that it frequently presents itself as the safer option, when in reality it simply offers us a different kind of risk.