Your Most Vivid Fears Virtually Never Come True - Seth's Blog

My older brother posted a very short post which I'm cheekily gonna expand on for once, rather than post a very short precis of what he wrote...

...He essentially says that we always attend to the people/situations/organizations that scream at us the most - at the price of neglecting those things most important to us, that will actually move us along.

I know I do this. Someone calls with an urgent job, a request to cover for them, or a bill reminder comes in and instead of saying, in the nicest possible way "screw ya, I'm going to spend the afternoon researching a field I'm interested in", or brainstorming this or that idea, or even just reading a book or going for a walk,mass panic sets in we fall in line like lemmings (do they fall in line? I know it's a myth that they commit mass suicide. Oh well,we  unthinkingly fall into line anyway).

Noone wants to be the worm that turns, the one that doesn't do what everyone else is doing and runs the risk of all the vivid shock horror images people have of being buried in a pauper's grave as a penalty for standing up for themselves. It's the mentality that keeps people in a shitty job earning a pittance and going nowhere, forever attending to 'urgent' matters, failure in which will result in sure death.
 
I should know I was one of the lemmings myself once. So give yourself a break. Literally if need be. Just remember all those fears of plane/car crashes, financial ruin, murder, disastrously failed relationships etc., whilst they can happen, very rarely do so, and shouldn't be a reason for you to destory your own life every bit as much (only in a much more protracted way) as those catastophes would. In fact those that believe int he law of attraction (don't think that includes Seth but I can't be sure) would have it that it's solely the relentless thrashing of self with these bogie stories that ends up in them becoming reality.

Not sure this is exactly what Seth meant but I've enjoyed running with the ball for once..