"When Fear Holds You Back"

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Layba

Pakistan

Mar 27

Joined Oct 4, 2024

It Scares Me to Try Again

Have you ever felt like the world was daring you to get back up, but your heart just wasn’t ready?

I have.

It’s not that I don’t want to try. I do. But every time I muster the courage to take a step forward, the memories come rushing back—uninvited and unforgiving. The anxiety attacks feel like waves, crashing over me, pulling me under until I can’t breathe.

The worst part? It’s not the world around me that tortures me it’s my own mind. It whispers cruel things: What if you fail again? What if you’re not good enough? What if this pain is all there is?

I try to silence it. I try to remind myself that I survived before and that I am stronger than I think. But some days, it’s exhausting to fight a battle with yourself.

The hardest part of starting over is carrying the weight of what you have lost. It is the fear of falling again, the fear of that same piercing pain. And yet, here I am, trying to believe that maybe just maybe there is still something worth fighting for.

They say time heals everything, but does it really? Or does it just teach us how to live with the scars?

I wish I could tell you I have all the answers. I wish I could tell you it gets easier. But the truth is, I am still figuring it out. And if you are here, reading this, maybe you are too.

And that’s okay.

It’s okay to be scared. It’s okay to feel broken. But I hope, for both of us, that one day we will find the courage to try again not because we have forgotten the pain, but because we have remembered that life is still worth living.

Until then, let’s take it one shaky step at a time.



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