Act III

FEAR

(Also known as: Uh-oh.)

        This is where the doubt begins, where the mind comes back  from shopping, yells at the heart, binds and gags it to a nice lounge chair and allows guilt, failure, and remembrances of things past to sit in for a nice game of bridge. This is where you fear what you  need most.  If it’s a person you love, you fear appearing foolish in  front of them. If it’s a sport, you fear being foolish in front of  many, many people at the same time, and you begin to think:

    oh no. What if I’m wrong? What if this stinks? What if my heart has
    blinders on, it’s had blinders on before, in fact it had dark heavy patches taped all over it.  How can anyone love me if I don’t love myself? I mean, I love myself, there are just parts between the top of my head and the bottom of my feet that could use some improvements.   

    I’m not demeaning myself, I have relatives who do that .