This is a very difficult subject, because no one wants to be honest about it. And that’s okay. We whistle past the cemetery… or we wear gear that proclaims we got No Fear, dude. Whatever gets us through the night.

Still, it doesn’t hurt to take the boogeyman out of the closet every once in a while and contemplate the sheen on his empty collarbones. Fear. The fear of pain, of death, of failure, of making a mistake that harms or kills someone else, the fear of embarrassment, of loss, of… I could go much deeper, but it is not my goal to give fear too much celebrity.

The fact is… it’s just another day. It is always just another day.
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