With everything in the news lately, it is really easy to become afraid of the world we live in. It is easy to decide to forgo vacations for fear of flying or because diseases may be out there. We begin to be scared of everyday things that at one point we never were and never had to be scared of. I am even more afraid though of fear holding myself and others back from living our lives.

I am afraid that someday I will be old and my life will be unfulfilled. That I will be unsatisfied and say that I wish I had done things when I could have. Because someday we will all be in the latter half of our life no matter how much we try to forget that. Some day we will not be as physically capable of doing things we love or would want to try. I am afraid that some day I will think to myself “I wish I could have done that” and it will be too late for me to be able to. That people will show me pictures of them doing things that I have always wanted to do and that I will be jealous because one day I could have done that, too.

Never let fear of what is out there hold you back because life is too short for regrets. The world may be scary, yes, but that does not mean that you should hide from it. We never know what is going to happen to us any day while doing anything. We are not guaranteed to ever be safe. Do not let people tell you that you cannot or should not do anything. If you want something bad enough, go do it. Go get it. Do things now that you are young and capable because you never know when you will no longer be capable to do them. Go on vacation, sky dive, learn a new language. Do something you have always wanted to today so that you have no regrets tomorrow.