I am not an author of words. Who is it, then? It is Seneca, the great ancient Roman stoic philosopher.
I wrote this text on the 19th of November, 2022. I was inspired to do it because I found my notes from the past (to be more precise, from the 28th of March, 2018). The truth is that I decided to find some inspiration to change the theme from the last days. I often wrote about exposing my body to frigid temperatures by walking in summer clothes. This time, I decided to write about fear. Do I scare other people? I hope I don’t. I do not feel trembling with fear. In today’s post, I want to stress I am not scared of life. That’s why, according to Seneca, I do not try to bring fear to other people I meet in my life.
All my activities, which you can find on the www.adammazek.com website, are focused on inspiring other humans, not scaring them off.
I wanted to avoid writing about my romance with cold, but I would like to know if it is possible. The truth is that walking in freezing temperatures is, indeed, fighting my fears. I cannot say I already overcame it. Each time I take a freezing shower and walk in frigid temperatures, I again fight with myself, fearing that I won’t manage to walk while feeling cold and will have to give up. Indeed, giving up and letting go are not the worst things that could happen to all of us.
On the contrary, sometimes we should let go of something to start feeling free.
Indeed, it is cold that can make me free. Contact with freezing temperatures hurts. Still, they helped me overcome my fear. That’s why I cannot imagine scaring other humans because there is nothing to scare off. Even death seems like giving total freedom, not pain and fear.
