This blog and my writing is about taking creativity to a whole new level with courage to be different.
I am disabled due to illness. My body -thanks to others including my former employer- overexposed me to pesticides and black mold to the point where my body cannot end the cycle called: biotoxin illness on its own. Basically, my own body attacks and poisons itself.
I have terrible inflammation. Inflammation that has injured my brain function. So being Undawnted, becoming Fearless was to help me overcome the challenges of an illness that at any moment could stop my heart, inflame my lungs, or shut down any one of my organs. I had to find the courage to move forward knowing I have no control to stop any of it.
I have dizzy spells/vertigo now. My balance sucks. I cannot maintain equilibrium for too long when I stand or walk. So in mid-January I messed up my right foot in a most severe way. I am still wrapping my foot in an ace bandage while in bed to write this piece this morning. Then I caught a virus, which I have burned a fever on and off since February 22nd. It has been real fun around here not knowing how to feed or clean myself because Medicare affords me no medical help and my Medicare doctor does not take my real and treatable illness seriously so I have no home assistance, no oxygen, and no prescriptions for my hundreds of dollars in supplementation I take a month. I cannot take most prescription medications because my liver cannot handle them.
So I have to live fearless or I would not be able to write, or well, do anything positive and proactive.
Insert recent current events, people have given into their darkest fears and have wallowed in it for all the world to see. Really? You need how much toilet paper?
I have a biology minor and other sciences in my background and experience. For a virus, you don't need 35 years worth of toilet paper. You are allowing your fear to conquer you.
I was doing some research about being creatively fearless when I ran into this 2015 Psychology Today article:
7 Ways 'Fearless' People Conquer Fear with the caveat: They overprepare but they don't overreact.
So what are you doing during this medical crisis? Have you succumbed to your flight or fight by actually fighting over toilet paper?
If you want control over an uncontrolled situation, you must first conquer your own fear of the unknown. In the creative writing world, we brainstorm. We sit down and write out without editing ourselves what the topic means to us. If we are developing a character or a plot line, we list every aspect that comes to mind. That is what you can do about your fear.
Writing exercise: write out your worst fears. Then compare your list to reality. Do they match up? Or, are you over-hyping your fears' importance?
In reality, COVID-19 can be defeated if people would voluntarily shelter in place for 60 days around the world, all at the same time. That would mean criminals and other knuckle heads would have to take a two month vacation. World leaders would have to set the example by being the adults we need and not the selfish bastards they act like everyday.
You know who I am talking about.
No one is going to do that because the human race has allowed our society and culture as a whole to spiral down into the me, me, me state of psychological immaturity.
So according to the Psychology Today article, how can our human family face the challenges that lie ahead?
- Respect Fear
- Understand the Mechanics of Fear Itself
- Understand Your Own Fear Triggers
- Build Confidence Where Fear Lies
- Prepare Without Overreacting
- Be Adults Despite What Fear Wants
- Ask For Help If You Become Overwhelmed
Fear should never dictate your actions.
That is how you become FEARLESS.
Have a great and wonderful day.
