How I Stopped Procrastinating My Fear

I’ll do it tomorrow.

That’s what I kept telling myself and my Pop Pop when it came to learning to drive. I was a very frail girl growing up and starting to learn to drive scared the shit out of me. I was so used to having others control my life, that the idea of actually having my own freedom scared the hell out of me. Everyday Pop Pop would come to pick me up to take me to school and he’d be in the passenger seat when I’d come out. For almost 2 weeks I had to hold my head in shame and ask him to move over so that I didn’t have to face the one thing that scared me. 

It took me way longer to learn to drive than most. The thing most teens would kill for, I wanted nothing to do with. You know maybe it wasn’t just my freedom I was scared of, maybe it was the fact that I knew that I would have to start to take over more for my Grandparents with the caretaking of my mother. There was grocery shopping, Dr appointments, running errands for my mother. Whatever the case may have been one day I just stopped asking Pop Pop to move. One day I just accepted that this is something I had to push through and that I could focus on what comes from it not fear the act its self. I started to practice every day and on the big day of my driving test, I passed with a 95%! I stopped procrastinating and faced my fears and at that moment took control of how I would handle that part of my life!

Misty also had to fight through dealing with a fear of hers. She was dreadfully afraid of bug Pokemon. I mean if she caught a glimpse of a bug Pokemon she would cower and have a panic attack. But Misty had to come to terms with her bug fear when Ash caught a Caterpie. There was no putting off getting used to this creature anymore because her best friend now loved it. It took her being around the bug often for her to get over her fear but she eventually got used to being around the bug.

Have you tried to procrastinate from doing something because you were afraid of it?