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    Murphy's Law

    The fear begins as a whisper—soft, almost kind.
    A flicker in the shadows of thought,
    a ghost of what could go wrong.
    But you look. You listen. You feed it.
    And fear, once invited, grows fangs.
    You cradle catastrophe in your mind
    until it sleeps beside your dreams
    and wakes before your coffee.

    The more you dread,
    the more it becomes a self-fulfilling spell,
    cast by trembling hands
    and minds too haunted to see
    that the thing we run from
    is often drawn closer
    by the thundering echo of our retreat.

    You feared they’d leave—
    so your anxious questions pushed them to the door.
    You feared the fall—
    and in bracing, you slipped.
    You feared silence—
    and your panic spoke loud enough to echo.

    The universe listens not with judgment,
    but with obedience.
    And it moves
    in the direction of your gaze.

    Fear is a script you recite so often
    that life begins to follow its stage directions.
    It becomes the blueprint of breakdowns.
    And once you expect disaster,
    you live rehearsing it—
    repeating lines that summon storms,
    as if rain was your destiny.

    But it’s not.

    You are not cursed.
    You are not doomed.
    You are simply powerful—
    and that power bends to belief.
    So shift it.
    Breathe life into faith, not fear.
    Envision calm, not collapse.
    See love arriving, not leaving.
    See doors opening instead of locking.

    Because when you choose to feed hope
    with the same hunger you once gave anxiety,
    the world responds.
    The winds turn.
    And suddenly, the monsters
    become mist.
    The worst-case no longer rules your mind.
    And the life you feared
    stops knocking
    because you finally stopped answering.

    Fear only wins
    when you crown it king.

    Kristopher Haeberlin

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