Recently I was feeling particularly anxious. It was not just in my head, it was in my bones… It was not just one thing, it was a hundred problems that felt bigger than I was. All at once. The fear and anxiety had built up inside me… until I just felt paralyzed. “How did I become such a chicken?” I thought.  Yet in the midst of feeling petrified, a silly thought occurred to me - why am I comparing myself to a chicken? And how did chickens become associated with fear anyway?  

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