I don't understand fear. It is so stupid and inadequate, and yet, we all feel it. Most of the time, fear cannot help us achieve anything, and yet, we fail to let go of it.
Do you know that feeling when you just fear to do something extraordinary because [insert your excuse]? However, when people ask you:
"Why are you even afraid?"
There is no logical explanation why are we afraid. I mean, I am often scared of flying on a plane, even though I know that it is probably safer than walking. I still say that I am afraid of crashing, but in reality, I know that the crash is ain't happening. So what the hell is wrong with me?
And we live in constant fear. Some of us are afraid of losing love; others cannot cope with the idea of going broke; others wish to keep their freedom. Ironically, fear of losing freedom is what locks us up. Fear of losing love often leads to loneliness.
And fear of falling can only push us from the edge of the cliff.
The worst thing, we miss out all the beauty in the world when we are living in constant fear. We stop doing things we wish to do because of some random excuses which make no sense. We are afraid of something not real. I mean, it's the sign of insanity in some way, isn't it? Yup, we are all insane.
Only fools and prophets are afraid of the future.
I am only certain that I am not a prophet.
I am also certain that living without fears can only make our lives magnificent. Only when our minds are calm, we can enjoy the beauty of Grand Canyon... or fall and die.
We need to fear the fear to make it go away 😉
I thought about it exactly the same @mystisoul
Can we also fight ignorance by ignorance? :D
Nice post. Followed :)
Thank you @sandram!
https://www.quora.com/Why-do-we-feel-fear?share=1
That's a good read. Quora has all the answers lol
Very interesting post.
Meher Baba says that the opposite of Love is fear.
Thanks @lakshmi! I have to agree with Meher Baba on this one as well.
I hate living in fear, i was afraid to talk to people I didn't know, and it really kept me out of living my life. Once I got over that fear I actually started to get things I wanted and needed, and even gained knowledge. Live and learn is what fear is, you are afraid, you do it anyway and it turns out it wasn't that scary....
I am glad to hear that you succeeded in overcoming your fear @kess! Yup, it is only scary before we try it. After that, we don't even remember why we feared it.
exactly! everyday i overcome a fear, no matter how small it's an accomplishment to me
Yup, it is all about small steps! :)
FEAR - The unknown monster living on the inside of humans.
True! Completely true!
good post. I frequently think about it.
I guess when we act we don't fear, we have not time for it. something around.
and this is the way (for me, at least).
Yup, I think the same as well. Sometimes we fear things just because we have enough time to think about it. When something really bad happens fast, we just act instead of thinking of bad things.
I would say "don't fear fear, fear of living under fear". Well quite good post you have, fear only comes to our mind when we are thinking about future instead of present, we should avoid it as future is certainly coming and present will be gone in seconds. @writingamigo up vote and followed you.
I like the saying "don't fear fear, fear of living under fear." It is quite spot on.
And yes, we are only scared of thing we don't know. Of course, the future is the only thing we will never know.
I followed you too! Thanks!
Well, thank you too.
Almost all of us have our different fears, more or less. And it is complicate our life. It is really an art to learn to live without its.