Lunch

 Today i went to lunch with my mom. It was a spur of the moment thing but it was nice. Only problem was the restaurant she had picked was the same restaurant my ex had broken up with me in. Obviously my mom wasn't aware of that so i decided to keep my mouth shut and go. On the way there i thought the choice of restaurant would be a problem, that i wouldn't be able to keep my mind off my ex. Then i thought to myself "problem.......No, opportunity....How is this an opportunity?" Then i realized it was an opportunity to face a fear. I had come to realize that i had a fear of this restaurant. I was afraid to go there because of the memories of my ex. I was afraid of the memories. I decided the best thing to do was to just tackle it head on and just go in and have lunch with my mom. When everything was done and my mother and i had parted ways i thought to myself "What did i accomplish? Well i faced a fear yes but did i learn anything? Whats the moral here? Well....I like that restaurant a lot....The only reason i haven't been there was fear... So i came to 2 conclusions. The first was easy: Never let fear stop you from doing something. The second was a little harder to grasp and put into words, and a little more abstract: I was personifying my fears in the restaurant when really the restaurant had nothing to do with it. It was just where an event occurred yet it had nothing to do with that event at all so really i shouldn't even associate the two. Yes she broke up with me, it doesn't matter that it was that restaurant its still a good restaurant and I'm still gonna eat there.

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Tags: mom, fear, ex, relationships, problem, opportunity