What Are You Afraid Of?

If one’s goal is reformation, revolution, or renewal, one is most often faced with many dilemmas—many mountains needed to be climbed, proverbial rivers that need to be forged. Any great journey is beset on all sides by any number of deterrents, distractions, and obstacles. It is ambition that gets one through, ambition that keeps one’s mind on task. Without ambition, the journey would sooner or later come to a slow, dilapidated, out-of-gas end.

The truth of the matter is that many people are afraid of ambition. It is not failure that scares people; it is not failure that stays the hand where work needs to be done; it is not failure that keeps the feet from moving when walking is needed; it is not failure that terrifies the mind to keep one’s ideas to one’s self. It is success; it is the idea that you are powerful beyond perception, capable beyond comparison, and able beyond measure that fuels the icy claw of fear that grips the hearts and kills the ambition of so many.

Success is a story riddled with trial, and in so being is often avoided. It is never easy to purposefully put one’s self in harm’s way, even if there is a great goal at the end. That is where ambition comes into play—where ambition is needed. Ambition is that equipment needed to climb the mountain; it is the bridge needed to cross the river; it is the purpose needed to convince one’s self to continue on, to persevere, and to never give up.

Keep your ambition and you will be successful. It may not be overnight, it may not be overmonth, but keep your ambition to go forward, to take the next step, and to push past the obstacles that will be in your way. Even when blinded, move forward. Even without a map, keep your feet moving; never ever give up and stay stagnant—awaiting the end of your future and the beginning of nothing. Let your blood flow through your veins with vigor.

A society with ambitious people, coupled with morality and good causes, can overthrow the dilapidated system that has yoked us into submission. A social reformation will spark and easily go out like tinder trying to light a wet fire; but with ambition as the kindling, the fire with slowly, yet surely ablaze!

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Or deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, nor our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be…Your playing small doesn’t serve the world. There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do…As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” Martin Luther King Jr.