Feel the fear and do it anyway

How often does fear knock at your door? It happens quite often to me and when it does I used to choose to avoid it or run away from whatever scares me into silence. However, something changed when, a few years ago, the risk taker within me decided to step forward. That's when I finally decided to quit my teaching career after 20 years. I sold my car, gave away my clothes, had no home and then I took a backpack around the world. It was very scary and challenging for me but I had an amazing life experience and came back to Istanbul a year later. I have started to teach again, but I am no longer the person who left two years ago.