ChainbreakerInk

I felt a need to write something today. Perhaps it is a form of self validation, but I hope that it encourages others that have felt much like me. Why did I choose the screen name ChainbreakerInk? It is because I fear few things more than a life of wasted potential. I have witnessed it again and again in my family. People capable of great things; architecture, poetry, music, and other forms of creating, but nothing ever comes of it. I was always being told by family members about how one person wasted such potential, while being told by the same person why they never tried or how what I was doing would fail. Both sides of my family grew up with this negative narrative of fear and doubt chaining them down from their true potential. It starts with others speaking out of fear and then you unconsciously begin doing it to yourself. It is like the Norse myth of Fenrir when the gods chained the great wolf out of fear of what might come. They were controlled by their fear rather than by reason