was to do nothing but read and windsurf every day. I wanted to feel the fear and do it anyway. I wanted to learn how to ride the currents, and I couldn’t think of a better way than to
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myself to the invisible, ever-shifting wind.
I decided to sail at Swell City, a favorite outpost on the Washington side of the Columbia. That July
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to be one of the windiest months on record. I grew to find that what I was doing did
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for my standing in the world. It won me no friends.Then againI was
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.
One day, a friend and her l5-year-old son came, and after I explained my
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, he said the simplest but most profound thing: “It’s all in the
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. ” This kid had windsurfed only three times ,
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he knew the secret. “If you go out there knowing you’re going to
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it, you will, ”he continued. “But if you go out there afraid you’ll get hurt , you will. ” I smiled at him. Wasn’t that
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the same problem I’d encountered in life? I’d always been terrified l wouldn’t reach the goal or
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the job. I knew I had to let that fear go. And slowly I did.
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