A short first-person monologue about managing persistent fear and insecurity. The speaker recounts advice received to stop fighting fearful memories and instead welcome and acknowledge fear — allowing it to sit with them ("ride shotgun") without giving it control — and describes practicing this exercise repeatedly until fear no longer accompanied them.
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So he told me something that changed my life. Like that moment, he told me, bevo, listen, wanting to get rid of your past experiences is impossible. You can never hit. There's no delete button to delete a memory. He told me, the next time you're in a situation and that fear presents itself, don't fight it. Welcome it, Acknowledge it, Recognize it, Say, oh, hey, you're here. My doubt, my. My fear, my insecurity, all of that. Come here. Come here. Sit right here next to me. You're gonna ride shotgun, but you're not driving. I know you're there, and you're not in control. You're not going away. Now, I know that. I don't want you in control of anything in my life. And that exercise, I did it over and over and over and over to the point where fear went from being the entity that would ride shotgun in the car seat to where fear doesn't ride with me anymore.