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Fear

 Fear 

What a scary feeling 

Not knowing what will happen next 

In dangerous situations 

In scary situations 

In moments where you await an outcome of something 

and you pray relentlessly for it not to go the way you’re fearing it might. 

We fear the future when we’re doubtful of it going right. 

We expect it to go wrong. 

We panic. 

Our hearts pinch with every beat. 

We take fast, short breaths and feel our head clouding. 

We can’t feel our palms and we’re hardly aware of what's going on around us. 

Uncertainty. 

That is what is linked with fear. 

They both go hand in hand. 

However, the only thing to fear is fear itself. 

Fear dwells in panic-driven thoughts and slowly builds up little by little until it has consumed all of you. 

It lurks in the shadows waiting for the perfect opportunity to plant itself in your brain, unnoticed. 

Fear disappears when even a tiny bit of courage comes through. 

It is an illusion. 

Fear was made as a survival instinct; it was meant to keep you alive. 

When your brain recognizes danger, your amygdala, the part of your brain in charge of emotions, starts up fear. 

In face of danger, your body starts up the fight or flight instinct. 

However, fear is not only that. 

We have a number of fears that we are afraid to face. 

Why? 

Because fear has made its way into our heads, convincing us that we will mess it up. 

I asked my parents what fear was for them, and first, my father replied that fear is that he leans out the balcony ledge and falls. Quite reasonable considering we live on the 25th floor. So, I asked him, you're afraid of death? To that he replied, no not death, I'm afraid of falling, death is inevitable.  

We have 3 forms of fear: rational, primal and irrational.  

Rational fears are when you have real, imminent threats like being held at gunpoint or anything that involves your life or someone else's life. 

Primal fears are something that we personally fear, like a fear of heights or arachnophobia. Those can slowly be overcome with the right approach. 

Next, we have irrational fears which cannot really be described, and you just fear it. An example of this is a fear of clowns.  


As someone recently told me, fear stands for false evidence appearing real.  

A way to overcome your fear is to acknowledge it. You need to know and realise that you do fear it. 

That acknowledgement will help you know that you do indeed fear it, now once that is done, think. How can you classify that fear, is it rational, primal, or irrational? 

Right before I walked up here, I had to breathe for a second and think about my fear, I’m scared to be up here. It's my first time talking up on stage after a span of almost three years, and the last time I was up on stage, I messed up pretty badly.  

But, I took a second to think how to classify my fear. Personally, I think it’s rational, since the cause of my fear was based on a past experience. 

A solution I found for this was to take it slowly, and make an effort to actually work on getting up on stage  

So, now take a second and think, what do you fear? Try to classify it and find solutions for it. It doesn’t have to be immediate; it can take a lot of time for you to find the perfect solution. But try, that’s where you see progress, because you are trying.  

Now to end this, I'd like to quote one of Franklin Roosevelt's most famous quotes  


“Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself-nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.” 

-Franklin D. Roosevelt  

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