Once fear enters your life—whether it’s been there for a second or a lifetime makes no difference—it will take you in one of two directions: empowerment or panic. That’s where the expression “like a deer in headlights” comes from. The deer is panicking and the panic—the extreme expression of fear—makes him stand there, unable to act. This marks the end of the deer, usually, and it’s not a happy end. Don’t be a deer. Dumb deer die a depressing death.
