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Internal battles are probably the most difficult to face. There is a constant struggle in your head between your thoughts; Thoughts bent on pushing you forward or pulling you back. We have a hint of exaspiration to our voices, we break apart during seemingly insignificant circumstances due to our overly sensitive and exhausted thinking process, we lay in bed into the wee hours of the morning running through almost impossible senarios, just because we're afraid. We're afraid of failure, and we're afraid to make the wrong decision. I know this story all too well, and I do recognize that I'm not the only one who goes through this. I've missed out on so much in my life simply because I was afraid to take a risk. I'm one of the most indecisive people you'll ever meet, and I do realize this. Sometimes, you just have to act on a whim. Sometimes, it is alright to follow your instinct.

So many people have the problem with making up their mind and taking a chance. Some people, including yours truly, have tried over-analyzing a situation so many times over that the answer simply becomes more clouded and far away. Not every risk that you take will result in failure, and if you don't get out there and live your life to it's fullest, what's the point in living? We are not on this Earth long enough to ruin a great thing because we are too concerned with making the right decision. You learn from your mistakes, and if you do not make mistakes, then you're not really living. Thomas Edison had over 1,000 failures before successfully inventing the light baulb. When he was told this he simply replied, "I never failed, I just discovered 1000 ways not to make a light bulb."

We give up too easily on ourselves, and I completely understand how throwing in the towel can seem like the easy way out. When the struggle has you beat down and you're miles away from the finish line, keep going. Crawl if you must, but don't give up. There are far too many reasons to take that risk and keep moving. I used to just turn down anything that seemed even slightly out of the ordinary, but ever since my mother got sick, I've realized that there is just too much in this world that I want to do, so many things that I want to see, and so many people I have yet to meet. Now, I know this might seem a bit cliche' but truly take my word for it, as soon as you get rid of the negative thoughts in your head, you are free from the shackles of your own personal prison. So often we are victims of our own negativity and our own fear.. So often we fall down, not because our biggest road block is in our own head. In order to succeed, failure is always a risk. In order to live life, we must take risks.

We are all fighting every day. The mind is a complex thing, ladies and gentleman, at least for the people who use theirs. We can develop certain mindsets, feel uncertain, be unsure.. but we can also have motivation and eventually reach success. One good thing about facing this struggle is, we're all together facing the same battle. We're just on different battlefields. We can talk to our friends; our commerades. We can get help fighing, and we can beat what is stopping us from taking a risk. Speak your mind, take the leap, run the mile. It might seem difficult to do, but it is easier with someone fighting alongside you.

Death is inevitable, but there is no use dying before we are called to leave. To me, there are two kinds of death. There is death of the body, and death of will. If we don't fully live our lives and try to make this world better, we're not really living. Life is difficult and there are so many things that could potentially go wrong, so why make things harder on ourselves by not taking chances? Why add more weight on our shoulders? We can not carry the world.. we are only human, but that doesn't mean that we can not do great things. We can do amazing things, but we must first overcome our internal struggles before we can face any external problem. If you fear everything, and you do not take chances, you already have failed.