Wednesday, May 31, 2006

The First Step

As the day we move to Canada approaches, I feel that familiar feeling of fear creeping into my psyche: fear of failure, fear of change. It's always easier to keep the status quo, to live comfortably and securely in a familiar, daily routine. It's easier to stay at a job you neither love nor hate than to take the plunge at the unknown. Yet, I know that I need to do move back to Toronto to practice my profession, once and for all. I've put it off for 4 years for fear of failing, of disappointing clients, of looking like a fool before other lawyers. But failure is not necessarily a bad thing. In failing, we learn to succeed. I think back on when my daughter was just learning to walk. She fell many, many times before she finally succeeded in walking, unassisted, without falling. Now, she's running around. Where would she be if she was too afraid to take that first step?

"In order to succeed, you must first be willing to fail." - Anonymous

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