You’re Not Dead, So Why Haven’t You Started Living?

It’s important to start right now.

Emily Jennings
4 min readApr 2, 2024

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We’re taught to play it safe. It’s a very convincing message because it compels us to make careful plans, be practical, understand our limitations, and take out numerous versions of insurance against the unknown. In doing this, we might as well already be six feet under. Life, for some, is death. They’ve already chosen to deny themselves things that make their hearts sing for the sake of fear or money. Don’t let this be you. You’re not dead, are you?

No, you’re not.

You’re coerced into this mindset of caring what others think and what uncertainty can do to us through education and societal programming. It’s a form of hypnosis. But it’s killing you. Trading freedom for a life of worry and fear is an act of giving up your chance to truly live.

Fear of the unknown and the subsequent notion that we can prevent anything bad from ever happening is the real pandemic. It’s such an alluring message that we are willing to completely forget what our dreams are to join the herd of others who have totally given up. This is modern society, folks.

It’s a time of great fear in the human collective. We feel that we need to stay afraid all the time. If we don’t, people might say “I told you so” when things go…

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Emily Jennings

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