# Chapter 355

Everybody in the entire building heard the child scream and then scream again. Just a normal day at the lab I guess, but if you aren’t accustomed to children screaming in holy horror at the needle coming their way, then you are in for a treat. This is the “I am being tortured by flaming hot brands” kind of screaming. The “I am going to die this very moment” kind of screaming. Elle, her nurse that had the horrible job of sticking the child while she was kicking crying and screaming, told me that she immediately quieted down once the needle was in. Why? Because as with most things in life, what we imagine is worse than reality.

Everybody in the building heard the child scream because of her imagination. Her fear of the unknown, i.e. her imagination. This is why people don’t reach for their dreams. Why businesses fail. Why businesses don’t get started. Why people drop out of college, or don’t go in the first place. This is why relationships don’t succeed, and why others break up. This is why you and I aren’t creating all that we think we could and should. This is why we don’t make the future that we really want. This is why we don’t love the way we really can. This is the reason we don’t live the lives that we could. This is why we don’t change the world every day. This is why we don’t live each day to the maximum. This is the reason we are stunted and less than we should have and could have been. This is the reason we care more about ourselves than others because we are afraid that we won’t get our portion, that it will hurt, that others are out to get us, that we aren’t understood, etc etc. We can change this.