QUESTION:

What's the thing holding you back?

This is bandied about a lot. "So what's stopping you?" "What's holding you back?"

Come the justifications. Linear attempts to prove that conditions are not right; that external factors are ever to blame for you not moving forward.

And we ask each other! I mean we are all assumed to be "held back" by one thing or another.

"The only thing holding you back is yourself." This from my eldest son, very recently. (When your kid out-philosophises you, you better damn well listen!)

I was of the former persuassion till the moment I heard him utter those words. Then- after the necessary self-reflection, I switched sides: The rest of the world didn't give a fuck about little old me- no matter my grand notions of self. I was, in fact, wholly responsible for my 'lack of action'.

But what, inside me then, is holding me back?

It's sure to be fear-based... fear is a bitch and we, really, should ease up on our cowardice. Give ourselves a break from constantly needing to prove 'forward action'. Sometimes, it's good to hold back. Or stand still, decision-less... That's what I think anyway.

(Liar liar pants on fire...)

What's your fear huh?