the one that made me wonder “what would dave do” was when my friend had a psychotic meltdown in my kitchen. i didn’t actually feel like i was in danger, and i didn’t think he was likely to hurt himself or us… but then i didn’t think he was going to wake up that morning demanding an audience with the prime minister so he could deliver his prophetic message either.

fear keeps us safe. but our own safety isn’t always the best thing.

The one fear that I constantly battle is the fear that everything I do – or try to do – is pointless and insignificant. In fairness, most of what I do probably is pointless and insignificant. But that fear is a paralysing force and it isn’t even a fear of failure so much as whether to try something is wasting energy.

It is hard to be the man with the flag against the line of tanks.

I can see that one can play off the fears as Dave says above, trying to assess the damage that would be caused my not taking the risk or doing the dangerous. At times that doesn’t really work and the only solution I have found is to close your eyes and pretend that the danger doesn’t exist or that nobody is looking or that my little action is the most natural and normal thing in the world so why would anyone be interested in me…? Which is pathetic really, but there we are. It is easier to pretend the danger doesn’t exist than face it.