Fear

I am reading a fiction about magic written by David Eddings. Magician´s Gambit.
There are a lot of books in this serie. And a lot of wisdom.

Tonight I read a passage about fear that I think is very good.

The book is translated into Swedish so I have to translate back

Mandorallen, the great Night has experienced fear. He is very uncomfortable with it and ask his companions to make a decision on weather he should leave the party.

Durnik, a blacksmith, tells him that humans has fear all the time. For about everything. Mandorallen says:
“-How do you cope with it?
- Do we have any choice? Fear is a part of life, Mandorallen, and it is the only life we have. You´ll get used to it. When you have put on that fear as an old t-shirt every morning you will not even notice it any more. Sometimes it helps to laugh at it - a bit.
- Laugh??
- Then you show the fear that you know it is there, but that you are planning to do, what you have to do, anyway.”

Thought this was very wise. And…..I practise it, almost daily.