Have you ever been afraid to live your life?

Have you ever been afraid to live your life?
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Honestly yes, sometimes, not much that the moments are there, that I feel like locking myself inside of my home and not really messing with any of that irritating outside stuff. I don’t of course, but the thoughts to come to my mind where I find messing with life a rather unpleasant thing to deal with even though I consider myself an excessively positive person at most instances.
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