Fear is an emotion experienced by everyone. What causes this feeling of terror? Perhaps it is a build up of miserable feelings that drift through guilty minds, such as greed and jealousy. Or perhaps it is the fear of growing older and ending life without a feeling of fulfillment. But does fear make someone a coward? Should it be locked away in the back of one's mind? The importance of fear is knowing how to acknowledge it and allowing that to result in its defeat. Fear is often associated with the uneasy feeling that results after watching a horror movie or hearing an alarming noise. Although, at a deeper level, fear may be caused by a long-lasting stress of dying unsuccessful. Today, it is often said that success is built upon possessions; …show more content…
Aging is a popular fear in society as most see it as their body weakening and deteriorating. Most people often lie about their age in hopes that they will forget that they are growing older. As a child, people usually dream of being an adult, as independence was once such a surreal concept. After living through the eventful years of the adult life, they begin to fear their future as they watch their independence slowly fading away. For Morrie, it started with his ability to walk, but they did not trouble him. While expressing his loss of independence Morrie stated, “The truth is, when our mothers held us, rocked us, stroked our heads-none of us ever got enough of that. We all yearn in some way to return to those days when we were completely taken care of -unconditional love, unconditional attention. Most of us didn't get enough” (Albom 116). As for Morrie, aging had never been some perpetual fear as it is for most. In fact, he seemed to be quite enthusiastic to experience the comfort and tenderness he once had as a child. Some often say that they wish they could relive their more youthful days, but they tend to forget about what still awaits them in the future. This often can determine that their life was unfulfilled. Reliving the past is impracticable and often shows that one's life was insignificant and uninspiring. As one grows older, they gain
Fear is a powerful emotion. Wikipedia.com describes fear as “an emotion induced by threat perceived by living entities, which causes a change in brain and organ function and ultimately change behavior, such as running away, hiding or freezing from traumatic events.”Most people tend to avoid fearful situations, not realizing that something positive may come out of the event or experience. Victor Villaseñor focuses on the topic of fear in his novel titled Burro Genius. Villaseñor demonstrates to readers how growing up he was extremely fearful of any situation. Victor also tells his readers how he turned his fear into motivation into motivation to keep going and reach his ultimate goal of becoming a published author.
Fear is an everyday emotion that the human race must face, and it can bring out the best and worst of us, but its how we choose to deal with it that truly defines us.
A girl named ,Oxana Malaya, was abandoned by her alcoholic parents when she was born. She grew up around dogs. She was seven years old when she was found, by then, she didn't have the ability to talk and she had no social skills. She would only act like a dog, barking, sleeping, and even cleaning herself like a dog. The environment a person is raised in will develope how a person acts, responds, and even thinks. There are three main ideas on how the environment shapes a person's behavior. The abandoned children funds says “Shockingly, there are over 20 million homeless or abandoned children in the world today - a majority of them are orphans.”The first is your own experiences can change your neuron's response. Connectomes
Fear prevents us from embracing the present moment. While fear does serve as a protective force, as individuals would not consider consequences without it, it also damages an individual 's ability to live mindfully. Fear prevents risk; it prevents individuals from taking risks that could move them from despair to fulfillment. We stand dissatisfied with the present, yet afraid of the unknown. The Mindless Monster that we possess provokes fear; negative thoughts such as “You are not good enough,” “You will fail,” and “You are not worthy,” flood our mind, causing an altered mindset. The problem with our Mindless Monster rests on the notion that it only provides negativity consequences, disregarding possible rewards. This fear halts our progress, trapping us in a mindless
Fear influences people to make irrational decisions and take extreme measures. Often times, these actions are done to protect one’s reputation. Fear causes people to lie and manipulate to those they care about in order to escape what they are scared of most. Fear of failure has caused higher levels of anxiety, and has made society put blame on each other, rather than owning up to their mistakes. Fear can also cause one to forget one’s true identity and lose one’s values. There are two options that one can take when being faced with a fear: run away from the fear, or go through it and learn a valuable lesson in the end that will make you a stronger person. Fear is a harmful emotion that everyone has to go through in order to succeed.
Fear can cause people to do many things. It enables peers and family to pressure people to conform and not express their true selves. People will go to great lengths to make sure they are not viewed poorly, even if it hinders themselves in their journey to develop a unique identity and be happy.
I agree, in my view, fear is very powerful “it paralyzes you from doing the work” , it makes everything seem “harder” or impossible to do when
Tuesdays with Morrie is a touching video revealing the significance and meaning of life (Albom, 1997). The main character Morrie, enlightens a former student Mitch, what it truly means to live a fulfilling and rewarding life as opposed to allowing life to merely happen. This profound message is inspirational, embracing the transformation of the monotonous events in life to develop into a mature perspective of appreciation for others. A deep life lesson rooted from a dying man in his last several months speaks volumes for the younger generations. The purpose of this paper is to present my initial reaction of the video, discuss touch and intimacy, provide insightful interpretations of Morrie, and analyze the significance of quotes from the
Fear is an emotion that can control our everyday thoughts and actions. Fear keeps people from
The word fear makes my mind draw a blank. I am trying to make sense of it but I can not, at least not for everyone. It is a word that is left up to a person’s digression. It almost seems unfair to have a clear cookie-cutter definition of what it is. The word is too broad to be sectioned off by one definition.
“When you say 'fear of the unknown', that is the definition of fear; fear is the unknown, fear is what you do not know, and it's genetically within us so that we feel safe. We feel scared of the woods because we're not familiar with it, and that keeps you safe.” – M. Night Shyamalan
In the words of Bertrand Russell, “Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom” (Russell). Fear causes many problems in our lives. Fear influences many of a person’s actions and decisions. However, people usually regret the decisions or actions they made out of fear. Also, these actions and decisions can cause problems for those people in their future. Fear is a harmful emotion, for it clouds people’s judgement, disables them from taking action, and causes them to make decisions that they will regret later.
Fear can be caused by many different things and can be a result of different situations. “Fear is a primary emotion. It is an evolved and adaptive physiological response that occurs automatically in response to particular
Fear has controlled the world and shaped humans into what they are now. New technologies have been created, because of the fear humans have. Over time new fears have evolved, and illnesses occurred due to anxiety and depression from these fears. The terror that runs through each individual is different. Without fear there would be no evolution or protection.
In conclusion, Coelho shows that people are more willing to take action on their dreams if they conquer their fears. The two most important fears that should be conquered are the fear of loss of beloved things or people, and the fear of what the future holds. In the end, fear is really just an obstacle in life; it controls people and makes them believe things that are not necessarily true and the only way to get rid of these thoughts is to get rid of the fear itself.