Aliyah Guerrero
Stripped: Afraid
After you've been forced to change paths it's easy to feel lost, alone, and afraid in the darkness. Naked and vulnerable, exposed for the world to see and judge, all defenses stripped bare and left open like fresh wound, to feel anything other than afraid would just be bad instincts. It's okay to be scared, it's okay to feel afraid, this is when you should feel frightened, this trial will test you and try to break you.
Whether it succeeds is up to a number of factors, none of them bigger than your own willingness or unwillingness to give up. Other people may or may not be able to, or choose to help you, but no one will ever be a bigger factor than you will be for yourself. None of us are in complete control of our destiny, even the very most successful people have setbacks and take losses, but how we respond to those losses in the end is what defines us and determines if we spend the rest of our lives naked and afraid, or back in the driver's seat of our lives.
Stripped: Afraid
After you've been forced to change paths it's easy to feel lost, alone, and afraid in the darkness. Naked and vulnerable, exposed for the world to see and judge, all defenses stripped bare and left open like fresh wound, to feel anything other than afraid would just be bad instincts. It's okay to be scared, it's okay to feel afraid, this is when you should feel frightened, this trial will test you and try to break you.
Whether it succeeds is up to a number of factors, none of them bigger than your own willingness or unwillingness to give up. Other people may or may not be able to, or choose to help you, but no one will ever be a bigger factor than you will be for yourself. None of us are in complete control of our destiny, even the very most successful people have setbacks and take losses, but how we respond to those losses in the end is what defines us and determines if we spend the rest of our lives naked and afraid, or back in the driver's seat of our lives.