It’s pretty costly to make a boat of any size. Whatever size, they all need a solid anchor to guard against drift that usually leads to shipwreck. Yes, the rudder and keel are vital, but those are both integral to the ship whereas the anchor’s role is to secure the vessel to something independently stronger, the mass of the sea bed. Lying off the many coasts around the world are sunken shipwrecks, many being preventable if there had but been a secure anchor in a storm.
Fear paralyses – absolute fear paralyses absolutely. It can’t always be rationalised for it is often irrational. The face of fear has many masks but our fears must be faced if we are to be free to live a life worth living.
‘I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear’ – Nelson Mandela
‘We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light’ – Plato
So what fears are you facing? Are they long-standing fears that have dogged your life from childhood or are they the dogs that began to stalk the corridors of your adult mind?
