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Personal Reflection:
Fear doesn’t live in the doing — it lives in the waiting. The scariest moment is the one just before we step into motion, when the unknown still has infinite power over us. King’s words hit harder because they name the truth: our hesitation feeds the monster.

That pause before beginning is where our doubts multiply. Every failure we’ve endured, every voice that told us we weren’t enough, every imagined disaster — they all gather in that breath before action. We give them weight by standing still.

But once we begin, the fear fractures. The blank page becomes a sentence, the closed door becomes a room, the leap becomes flight. The terror doesn’t vanish, but it loses its grip because we’ve shifted from imagining to inhabiting.

The lesson isn’t about fearlessness. It’s about remembering that fear is loudest at the threshold, and that courage is not the absence of fear but the decision to step forward anyway.

Reflective Prompt:
What threshold are you standing at right now — and what would it take for you to step through, despite the fear waiting there?