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| Image made by Mutsa Munyaradzi |
I was scrolling through the list
of song titles on my iPod in search of a name for my blog when I came across
Fire/Fear by The Head and the Heart. At the time I chose it because it’s catchy
and convenient but at the stage I’m at in my life, I can’t think of a more
fitting title for my blog. To me, Fire or Fear, means the difference between choosing
do to the things I am passionate about regardless of the fact that I may fail,
and being too afraid to do the things that I am passionate about because I might
fail. “Fire” means that I don’t put my dreams on the backburner so that I can
pursue a safe path in life that will likely be filled with a lot of compromise
and a lot of regret at a later stage in my life.
This is something that I’ve been
talking about a lot lately with the people around me – pretty understandable
since I’m coming to the end of my final year at university and applying for
jobs and trying to figure out the general direction my life. I keep repeating
that I don’t want to start making compromises now because I’m terrified that
that will become the theme of the rest life; choosing the easier path instead
of the path that’s riskier but probably where my dreams are located. And I’ve
also realised that it’s not enough for me to do work for the money.
Of course, nothing that I’ve
written up to this point is remotely new or extraordinary, seeing as just about
every third person pretty much shares the same ideas (I assume, I haven’t
asked). The thing is, I haven’t created this blog for everyone else, I’ve
created it for me. I’ve created it to challenge myself, to force myself to put
myself out there irrespective of what people might think of me. And I created
it to hold myself accountable for whether I chose fire or I chose fear during
the course of my life.
So, I invite you to join me of
this journey, my journey, as I regularly update this blog with my passions,
interests, curiosities, discoveries and adventures. And I sincerely hope that
there will be plenty of adventures for me to share with you and that you will
enjoy what I have to share.
Here’s to choosing fire over fear.
M.
