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Don’t follow your fear instinct, because that is going to make you a coward. It degrades your humanity.

Life is an intricate web of paths, not predetermined but carved by the footprints of your choices. The fear instinct, while a primal mechanism designed to protect you from physical danger, can become a barrier if misapplied to the psychological landscapes of your life’s journey.

To follow your fear means to allow trepidation to dictate your direction. Instead of stepping forward into the unknown – where growth, learning, and experience await – you retreat into the illusion of safety that fear promises. But this safety is a mirage; it is stagnation disguised as security.

When you act out of fear, you are not truly alive. You become a coward, not in the sense of courage on a battlefield, but in the context of life’s greater war – the conflict between becoming a fully realised individual and remaining a shadow, untested by life’s challenges.

To transcend fear is not to ignore the risks but to acknowledge them and proceed regardless, with awareness and acceptance of the potential consequences. You are meant to sail the vast oceans of life, not to remain moored in the harbour. Every time you confront fear, you are not merely overcoming an external obstacle, but you are also evolving internally, spiritually.

Do not treat life’s choices as a matter to be avoided for fear of discomfort or failure. You degrade your humanity when you relinquish the pursuit of what is meaningful for the comfortable and the mediocre. Your humanness is defined by the ability to go beyond instincts, to choose with consciousness, to take leaps of faith into the unknown.

Hence, embrace life with all its uncertainties. The absence of fear is not the goal; the mastery of fear is. You become stronger with each encounter, more robust with each struggle, and closer to your ultimate potential with each barrier you overcome. Trust in existence, and allow your inner light to guide you through the darkness of fear.