WHY do people KEEP telling people to do this?

Great thread, I also agree with most things you said, and very interesting see a different way of thinking about it, after all, there's not a 'rule' of how to accomplish the goal. I also think like you, even after almost 2 weeks and no dificulties about it, despite of it, I adopted the same strategy of most of the people, basically I still don't trust enough myself to face things again yet, but I really intend and I've been thinking of remove the blockers and stuff like that in the near future.

The core of all this is your psychological, keep hiding and running away from these things I believe it's not the best way for me, I have to deal with it, everybody will have to. The thing is to 'behave', remember why are you doing all of this, keep focused and control yourself. In fact it is a very good way to test yourself.