Do you understand fear?
Do you understand what this concept entails?
Peer inside yourself.
NO.
Not lightly, look deep.
Drown in the depths of your very own soul.
Taste the stark naked reality of your own shortcomings.
Face your fear!
Push yourself.
No. Push harder.
Harder!
Come on.
What is your limit?
No one knows, but who wants to know?
ME!
Face it!
Extend yourself;
Traveling through thorns faster than the speed of
thought through a cosmos of your true self.
Feel the friction scorch your self-worth!
Do you feel it?!!
Can you sense your limits?!!
NO?
Then do it again. This time with me.
Down
Down
Down
The depths grow darker as I look to the surface.
My failures laugh at me and stab at my eyes.
But I know fear,
for as I look down to find my limits the way grows brighter.
This is beyond fear.
Down
Down
Down
No, we're not there yet.
But feel the intensity.
Know fear.
I feel it.
I live it.
My limits travel ahead of me because I push them!
This is FEAR.
For one day they just may push back.

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