The other night I was at Vacation Bible School at my church. I watched as a 6-year-old girl got very upset. Another girl was sitting beside her "boyfriend" and that was just devastating to her. While I giggled to myself over it at first, I then realized something. At a very young age, we are instilled with fear. While these fears change throughout life, there are always things that we fear.

I feel like many people think that you must hide your fears away. You feel like people won't understand or that they will look at you differently. For a long time, I have let my fears eat away at me. I have been so afraid of things, that I never would face them. I didn't talk about them and I tried to pretend they weren't there hoping that they would just go away. I recently realized that the only way to get rid of fear is to face it head on.

You have to be willing to be vulnerable to yourself and your emotions. You need to be able to talk about these things. If you are scared that you won't ever graduate, do everything you can to better yourself and your education. If you are scared you won't ever find someone you want to marry, focus on yourself and what makes you happy. If you are scared of death, live a full life.

The thing is that we will always be afraid of something. There will always be something that will make us tremble and lose sleep. Something that turns your stomach at the thought. But you have to remember to control your emotions, and not let your emotions control you.

You have the power to face your fears. You are not weird or messed up for having them. It is perfectly normal to be scared. Fearless is not being afraid, it is being scared to fly, but jumping anyway. So go out and jump! Live a life that is full and make it yours.