Fear.
Being afraid is a natural human reaction. People are afraid of many things like spiders, snakes, death, etc. I know that I have unnatural fears of birds and squirrels. But a fear that many people don’t talk about and don’t even acknowledge is fear itself. Fearing fear is an actual thing. Being afraid of fear is when you are so worried about what’s to come without even having much an idea of what exactly that is. Fearing fear is the worst type of fear there is.
Fearing fear is something I know I fall in to. I’ll start to think about what’s to come and the unknown is what ends up scaring me. Not knowing tomorrow or the next day or the next day makes me more afraid than anything else. But it’s more than not knowing what’s to come, it’s also not knowing how to react or handle what’s to come. It’s not knowing how other’s feel and what other’s will do and how that may or may not affect me.
In today’s day there seems like so much to fear. So many unknowns when it comes to the world. So much that I don’t understand and that alone makes me fearful. When I really sit down and think about what the world will look like five, ten, twenty years from now I have this rush of uncertainty. My mind starts to work in overdrive and suddenly I have over thought life itself. I think this stems from fear itself. When fear wields its way into our minds, we begin to over think, over worry, and over work ourselves. When fear begins to take over our lives, we begin to lose our sense of happiness.
Being afraid of things is natural. It’s a common human emotion that we can’t really escape. But fearing fear. Now that’s something completely different. Fearing fear is allowing this common human emotion to completely take over your life. It’s constant worrying and never ending uncertainty. Fearing fear is ultimately giving up the choice to be happy and carefree.
We can’t escape fear. What we can do is choose what we fear. Instead of fearing the unknown, we should fear the known. The unknown can’t hurt us, but what we do know and don’t do anything to change, now that’s fear-worthy.
Fearing fear is an actual thing. It’s also a thing that needs to stop because it only hinders our capabilities. It hinders us being able to grow and conquer life. When you fear fear you allow that emotion to take over everything, including your ability to be truly happy.
