🌊 On Fear, Courage, and Becoming 🌊

There are moments in life when standing at the edge of change feels terrifying.

We look back at all we’ve known, all we’ve built, all we’ve survived — and ahead of us stretches something vast, uncertain, maybe even overwhelming. It’s in those moments that fear speaks loudest. But it's also where transformation begins.

We are not meant to go back. Life flows forward — sometimes gently, sometimes like a river finding its way to the sea.

As Kahlil Gibran so beautifully reminds us:

Kahlil Gibran “On Fear”

It is said that before entering the sea

a river trembles with fear.

She looks back at the path she has travelled,

from the peaks of the mountains,

the long winding road crossing forests and villages.

And in front of her,

she sees an ocean so vast,

that to enter

there seems nothing more than to disappear forever.

But there is no other way.

The river can not go back.

Nobody can go back.

To go back is impossible in existence.

The river needs to take the risk

of entering the ocean

because only then will fear disappear,

because that’s where the river will know

it’s not about disappearing into the ocean,

but of becoming the ocean. ~ Kahlil Gibran