Fear. I made this blog one day and it has sat and sat, untouched as a 'draft'.
I've started a few times, so it hasn't really sat untouched. Rarely touched. I guess it's a topic that should be talked about but I just never did. Ironic.
Moving along. A friend referenced my wild tangents in blogging the other day, I'll try to stay on track. So,
Fear - be afraid or feel anxious or apprehensive about a possible or probable situation or event.
Key words? Possible and Probable. When you think of fear, you think of a moment when you have been scared. Think, well a bad outcome is only probable or possible, not definite.
Fear really coincides with chance. You might not take a chance because you fear the outcomes. OR "feel anxious or apprehensive about a possible or probable situation or event", to be dictionarilly correct. But really, how silly is that? You're going to throw away a chance, a possible once in a lifetime chance because you're scared?
You.
Are.
Pathetic.
But then again, I suppose you're human. You're off the hook. Everyone is scared of something, however small. Things people are scared of starting with the letter I...
- Igloo
- Ice skating
- Immigrants
- Incense
- Infants
- Insignificance
People talk about fear as sometimes being a irrational fear. If there can be irrational fears, how can their be rational fears? What kind of a fear is rational, really? Admittedly, fears are fears because of their outcomes. You get bitten by a spider, yes, bad things happens. You fall down a cliff, even worse things happen.
Back it up? Famous quote:
A life lived in fear, isn't really a life worth living.
If you go day in, day out scared, worried, in fear of possible outcomes; not even certain fates. How do you get by each day? Shitting bricks every moment, that's how.
You are an amazing person, people love you.
You live an amazing life everyday.
You are gifted in more ways than you know.
What's there to be afraid of? Use what you've been given, live every moment. Do. Not. Be. Scared. In fear, where can you go? Nowhere. The key to change... is to let go of fear.
If we don't change, we don't grow and if we don't grow well... we aren't really living. Fear, should not exist in your life. Fear should not control your life. Fear is a pathetic thing, a useless emotion. Discard it. I don't know what you believe happens after death, but right now you can be sure you've got this life for sure. USE IT. You've been given so many great things, opportunities and so many amazing people, you have no reason or excuse to be scared of anything whatsoever.
If you've read this blog and taken nothing from it, which I reeeeaaally hope you have. Then take this, remember this, write it down somewhere if you so wish and live by it.
Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.
Never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever in a hundred million years.
So, recap. What is fear again?
Fear is,
A useless emotion,
A pathetic excuse,
A waste of time,
And fear is,
Non-Existent.
Friday, July 30, 2010
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But in an alternate perspective, the fears of men are quite beneficial.
ReplyDeleteFear of starvation and poverty, keeps people working.
Fear of imprisonment, discourages crime.
Fear of Hell, keeps people following outlined morals.
Fear of Society, deters rebellion
Those are only few reasons, but it pays to see the other side.
But in my honest opinion, rational and irrational fears do exist, though superficial.
The effects of Arachnophobia vs Atychiphobia, are should rarely compared in the same magnitude..
Keep it up though, Chris.