Fear

“The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.” I came across this quote by Aung San Suu Kvi recently and it struck me for its profound meaning. I began thinking about how fear affects us during our everyday lives and understood that fear is life’s only real limitation. Although the level of fear is different at each stage in our lives, it seems to be commonplace to hold back one’s actions out of fear.

When I came across the empty box sitting alone in the middle of a piece of paper, I felt a sense of dread of how I would approach such an open-ended assignment. I found it shocking that I could be scared of such a simple box and, in retrospect, such a simple assignment. I tried to think of ideas for this project and found that for some reason my ability to think was limited. It was at that moment that it hit me. My limitation for this assignment was the fear I had for how I would go about completing it. I remembered the quote I came across a few