How to Make Friends with Our Fears
Photograph by Oscar Keys
The secret to overcoming your fear is to consider it your ally, not your enemy
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If you don’t know the nature of fear, you can never feel fearless.
— Pema Chodron
When I was six, my father bought me a life-changing gift: a violin. I wouldn’t say I had mind-blowing talent, but I was good with music, and I enjoyed spending time studying it. At the age of ten I started to give small concerts for my family and our circle of friends. Months later, I was playing at the School of Fine Arts in my
