A brief first-person reflection encouraging confronting difficult situations instead of avoiding them. The speaker contrasts running toward problems (at work or in challenging interactions with a teenage son) with avoidance, and urges leaning into fears as learning and growth opportunities.
When I have a hard day at work, I can either run towards the fire or I can turn and run away from it. When I have a really tough experience with my teenage son, I can avoid and go focus on other things in life that are more interesting, or I can go lean into that and I can learn from it. I can listen, I can try again. There's just so many applications for this that have become real for me about not avoiding the difficult things in life, not avoiding my. Not staying away from my own fears even, but like, run towards those fears as an opportunity to learn and grow and be better.
