8/29 afraid

8/29:
topic given- 'write about your favorite quote'

"Have heart, my dear, we're bound to be afraid," he said to me. How wonderful, I thought, that in my moment of disallusion there is someone who cares about me so. "My dear," he had called me. Stay strong, don't give up, you're not alone. That's what I understood his words to mean. My stresses are natural, normal. I'm allowed to be scared right now, at this point in time. I'm not the only one who feels this way. I'm not alone. That was something that was important for me to realize. It was a big step. All this time I'd been waiting to feel a part of something greater than I. But I now understood that I already am. I am human. I am mortal. I feel the same things and share my emotions with everyone else. "Have heart," he had told me. You'll get through this, you'll rise above it. I can, too, I thought. I am bigger than these issues. They cannot overcome me. I will not be conquered. "My dear," he had said to me. He understands, I really am not alone. "We're bound to be afraid," and I believe his words.