“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” - Marie Curie

Allow fear to be an idea.

Allow fear to exist

Allow fear to be acknowledged.

Allow fear to hold you in its arms.

Allow it to take control, if only for a moment, to remind yourself, that something so powerful, will never be as powerful as you.

Allow it to break down your wooden walls, allow it to let the breeze of the cold air brush against your skin, so next time you know to pick a pretty paint color for your cement.

Allow the ideas of regression to leak into the back of your mind, like ink overflowing from a cheap plastic pen.

Allow yourself, the reminder, that there are many pens out there that will hold together the ink so that you can once write again.

Allow fear to call you hate and harm and hideous, with its pointing fingers, and its signs of segregation.

Allow yourself, the acceptance, that fear is just as fearful of you as you are it.

Allow fear to do the things you wouldn’t, because when you don’t do them, you are are not fear.

You are not fear, and you are not wrong.

Allow fear to guide you to be wise, to be honorable, to be respected.

Be smarter than smart, and more than just average.

Allow fear to push you away and call you scum, and allow yourself the power to stay.

Keep your roots, and don’t let fear control.

I believe in unity, peace, strength. I believe in America. I allow fear to be an idea, to exist, to be acknowledged, to hold me in its arms, so that one day, I can hold my baby the same way, and tell them that fear will no longer control them, the way it never ever will control us.