“We fear beginnings; we fear endings. We fear changing; we fear ‘staying stuck.’ We fear success; we fear failure. We fear living; we fear dying.”
As Susan Jeffers points out, as humans we fear many things. Using our voices is scary because we fear rejection, we fear (sometimes irrationally and sometimes with good cause) that we will be physically hurt for expressing our opinions. We fear making a change in career or relationship status or in learning something new because — what if we fail?! What if it’s not the “right” choice? What if we regret it later?