People are afraid of death...But it is often the case that they are also afraid of life.

It is sad when fear is a more frequent companion than joy. We are so radically, deeply bathing in fear. Though sometimes we have dreams about breaking out of the suffocating frame of life. We dream about freedom, longing to be free to fly along the seashore, to soar through the sky or along a forest path. To fly fast and without...fear...

Fear is like a pet that grows and expands as it feeds until it begins to suffocate us more and more. Since we are the cause of fear's growth, only we can tame it and train it as a puppy.

How to do this?

Use heart and mind. Stay aware. First of all, stop lying to yourself. If you don't like something, you tell it Yourself. If needed to others as well.

And because you are not a stone, you go to a place where you like it. And it's all your decisions, not influenced by someone else, but yours. Your suffering, because you chose to suffer. Your fear, because YOU chose to be afraid. Your happiness, because YOU chose to be happy. Not someone, not her, not his, not theirs.... but YOURS. You are not a wave of the sea, but a person who values the time of your life and makes choices. Openness takes courage. But what you get is priceless.

It's called living with an open heart.