Day 162: Healthy Fear

Today I realized I was grateful for healthy fear. You know what I mean? The kind of fear that keeps you just enough cautious, alert, sober minded when the circumstance calls for it. Like driving on roads that are horrible due to polar vortex weather*. That's just an example off the top of my head. :) But in all seriousness healthy fear is something I am grateful for because it keeps me thinking clearly, it gives me a focus when one is needed, it puts into me a necessary amount of sobriety (of spirit people, sheesh! haha) that the circumstance requires. And because of healthy fear I'm apt to make wiser decisions in the critical moments.
What about you? Have you ever thought about being grateful for healthy fear before?

*Sidenote: Remember when this same kind of weather was called El Nino? *wink*

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Call it a Day

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Butter someone up

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