It reminds me of something that happened to me when I was about 13 years old.
I had a paper route and it was a beautiful summer day.Some how I had managed to convince all the kids in my neighborhood to come with me.
There was one long stretch of road that had a scary house on it up a long driveway with a bunch of mean attack dogs penned up in the yard. They would bark and howl whenever I would walk by. It was scary!!

As the gang of us approached the house, we quieted down our laughing and shouting and tried to sneak by unnoticed. But the dogs started barking and howling, and next thing you know they were running down the long driveway after us!!

WE all looked at each other in panic and someone yelled “RUN!!!!”.
All 8 of us took off in different directions.I remember running faster than I’d ever run before. A big German Shepard was after me; barking and gaining fast!

Then something switched over inside of me. I was furious that this dog had me on the run and was wreaking my good time.I stopped dead in my tracks and spun around and screamed right in the dogs face- “Get away from me!!” The dog stopped dead in it’s tracks and turned tail and ran away.

Can I tell you how powerful I felt!! Right about then, the owner of the dogs drove up and called them all home.
The rest of the kids emerged from their hiding paces. I was the hero for the rest of that summer.

This expereince taught me to stand up to my fear. Running from it only made things worse!!

Thanks for reminding me of this!!!
Rock on!
Leah
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