About this time of year, people are making many resolutions to improve the quality of their lives. Aunt Josie can only endorse these, but she suggests a more important general resolution: conquering your fears, or only just one fear, i.e., the fear of looking silly or being somehow diminished by your actions. Fear of looking silly in front of others or of failing in front of others keeps us from growing. It hampers us in our attempts to try new things. It makes us refrain from engaging in activities that can end up making us happier.
Aunt Josie has so often observed people, especially the young, holding back from participating in activities or endeavors for no other reason than fear of failure or looking silly in front of peers. Only when they have consume alcohol or other substances do their inhibitions loosen. If you resolve to try new things while you still have good judgment before indulging in alcohol or other substances and permit yourself to be viewed as one who sometimes takes chances in the pursuit of knowledge, or just a good time, your life will be the richer.
In the long run, people tend to admire those who will sacrifice a little "face" to risk getting something they genuinely want or to engage in an activity which may ultimately open other doors. So resolve to be a little more spirited and adventurous in 2012. You will not regret it.
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