FEaR

Fear is in every one of us. Controls what we do, what we think, and what we feel. Fear is constant. It will not die out. Fear is a creature, a monster, a bug that under our skin, that we allow it’s crawling wherever it wants. Each day, we wake up with it, and each night we sleep from it as to escape. Then it will appear in our dreams, in its most clear forms. Like a flood, its terror takes us over. And it is hard to stop fear, the creature, the monster, the bug because we do not know about it: where it comes from, why it moves in our blood and minds; but the most important, what fear costs to us.

Fear is a creature, a monster, and a bug that under our skin, that grows bigger when we feed it. To control its size and power, we should know how to overcome of ourselves.

Fear is a greedy emotion that may vary in results. When we fear once, the mind wants more of it, then again, the more of it: because more fear equals more protection. Yet, that kind of fear is also creating a state of over-fear which defeats us. The tasks we describe as “I can not” is, in general, contains non-possibility because of fear. Even more, generally a “can’t” is a reaction to the fear of not achieving. In that state, being frightened of action is responded with no involvement at all, as drinking no coffees after a burnt or even imagining of a burnt is enough.

For example, let’s imagine a situation where you need to climb a mountain. At the top of the mountain, you know there is a box full of emeralds which is a reward for the climber of it. But the mountain is too high: the time you look at it, you remember that you have fear of heights. Thinking the risks and results, a coward would see the mountain as thousands of mountains clumped on. But a fearless would seize the mountain as an opportunity. He would fear of not taking advantage of the mountain, which would lead him to determination and success. The difference doesn’t come from the existence of fear; it comes from the way the person leads it. So fear can be something that motivates us, but also something that prevents us from moving at all.

The examples apply for our daily lives in accuracy. We, humans, are the most complicated creatures. I know that sometimes I fear failure and sometimes I fear success. But recently it occurred to me that fearing something takes much more time than actually facing it.