Fear

Time for my occasional rantings on life A.K.A blogging. Fear runs the world. From the smallest of personal decisions like what to wear today to momentous decisions affecting countries and regions.

Self protection is one of the outcomes of fear. In this the individual percieves that he/she has a weakness, something wrong with him. He/she thinks that he is not clever enough, beautiful enough, tall enough and that everyone around him/her notices this. And thus out of fear of their weakness being exposed they attack and lash out at people. These kind of people are the hardest to get along with. Beneath it all they are just people ruled by the fear that they are not good enough.

Hiding is another outcome of fear. These kind of people abhor being noticed. They hide within the crowd, never wanting to stand out. They hate being put on the spot or being asked to be responsible for something. Underneath it all is a deep fear that they are not good enough, that their  ideas have already been thought of. They do their things in secret, at night when there is no one to see them fail.

Fear causes paralysis. Have you ever woken up in the middle of the darkest of nights and been sure that someone was in the house? Did you feel fear coursing through your body and when you tried to wake up you couldn't and no matter how hard you tried you couldn't scream? And then you woke up to realize that it had only been a dream? Some people live that every day. Fear paralysis them whenever they are faced with big decisions. On the surface it may seem that they are buying time while in reality they are terrified.

Fear causes malleability. A person with fear is always looking for safety. And thus will do anything that they are told by a person who they consider to represent safety. Governments know this, terrorists know this, the church knows this and your father knows this. So they create things for you to fear so that they can control you for their own selfish needs. The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear-the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety (Henry Louis Mencken).

So how do you conquer fear? Face your fear, understand your fear, seek truth when you are told lies, know and appreciate yourself. All this so that you'll never find yourself blogging about fear..

Some further reading http://www.quotegarden.com/fear.html