Comments on: Still with the fear

By: carlo says"

carlo says" — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:08:20 +0000

afraid, fear, we as human always had fears.The only way you or we can combat fear is through faith.believe in yoursef.I read a book many years ago “death don’t be afraid” it was about living and challenges .about finding yourself and living up to it.
I spoke to some artist before the show and they always came with this sentence ” I am afraid”..of course they were afraid.but the fear was more emotional from the artist point of view,either his (her) art was ” to be accepted or rejected by the public or the art critique” or to be succesful.
As long we have faith in what we do…what ever come next it doesn’t matter.

By: Deb

Deb — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:52:09 +0000

Oh, gees, D’Loye, have you stirred up a storm in me. Here I have been thinking I have just been procrastinating on a quilting project when your little piece today points out that I am not lazy, not procrastinating but actually fearful. I never thought I was particularly fearful but here I am anyway. I so do not want to mess up this quilt top that I cannot seem to bring myself to even start. So now I have to ask myself, “Self, what constitutes messing up?” However much I may feel that what I have done is poor anybody who does not quilt or even just sew will think it is wonderful. So today I atually start. Thanks for the insight.

By: linda

linda — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:14:21 +0000

But what are we so afraid of? Failure? What do we lose if we fail? Obviously, if one is talking the stock market quite a bit of change. But, what I think you’re talking about is the fear of expression of self. Would your world disappear if you put yourself out there and someone didn’t like it? At our age, we’ve found where to get the strokes when the world hurts, so I think we should take the dare and just do it. Fear is the mind eater and if we’re going to end up mindless at some point, let it be for a good reason. Write to please yourself. Write for your grandkids. Write the story with all the warts, they can be taken out before you show anyone if you don’t like them in there, but write because you are not your whole self if you’re not writing. Don’t think about publication or writer’s club or anyone except yourself and write it down! You won’t get grounded for saying awful things about people, I promise. Postmodernism is making up our own truth? Weird definition. So much of what we have is based on principles we learned as “fact” when young, as many of our ancestors did. I’ve often wondered if those facts and theories of old were proven, and how, or were they just very good ideas that became truth.