Are you afraid?

What am I afraid of?

Fear, for me, is a sentiment that implies potential danger. It rarely goes beyond that. Life is way too distracting to be worried about something that isn't so much. I suppose if I were to pick something that I think about fairly often that could be construed as fear, it would be that anyone is capable of picking up a pencil and stabbing me in the eye socket and anyone is capable of flipping out for no apparent reason. Essentially, anyone at anytime might murder me. So, I try to keep my eyes open but I accept I might not be able to stop it, either. I can't really call that fear, though. More like a simple awareness. Hard to explain.

Biggest fear you've conquered?
I was afraid as a child to be honest when I made mistakes or broke things by accident. Fear of reprisal. That was probably the most damaging fear from my youth that I've gotten over.

How do you deal with fear?

I treat it as an indicator of potential harm. I identify what idea or circumstance is inspiring it and pull the problem apart until I understand it enough to deal with it. If I can't deal with it I accept it and move on.

As a point of advice, stewing in fear is cooking up trouble.

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I find this topic interesting.

I will try and deceive no one by claiming that I have no fears. I believe that fear is a healthy response to “threatening” situations. And I believe that it is in how we face our fears that shows the world what we are capable of.

Before, it was easy to identify my greatest fear. It was failure. I feared more than anything else that when the chips were down, I would fail. That fear was based on my ego. A direct link to what I believed I was capable of but not had the opportunity to prove in all situations yet. It was a false fear based on a lie.

Which brings us to the next question… what is the biggest fear I have conquered? Seeing that I the fear of failure is no longer a major motivating factor I guess it is reasonable to claim that I have overcome it. But that would depend entirely on your perception of the answer and the question.

How do I deal with my fears? Everyone faces fears every day. As I said before, it is how we face these fears that show the world just what we are capable of. This is partly true. Perhaps a better question is, why we face our fears? Are we trying to prove something to ourselves or others… or are we just trying to overcome that which “scares” us? Either way, these fears are healthy in my opinion. I feel that as long as we do not let the fears control us we have taken a big step to being better Jedi and in turn… better people. The best judge of who we are is not our ability to overcome that which we should fear, but how far we are willing to go. And this, no one will ever know until they are faced with that situation.

What are you afraid of?

loss, as a general answer.

specifically, I am afraid of losing all connections, which ironically makes me afraid of some conversations irl, cause I don't want to say something stupid! I am afraid of hurting (causing loss) to others, I am afraid of injury and death. and I am also really uncomfortable with very deep water, especially if it is murky! Do not like!

Biggest fear you've conquered?

....eating vegetables?

no, but I haven't really conquered many fears of mine, although I have become considerably less uptight about school!

How do you deal with fear?

Avoidance ~_~ but if I see the writing on the wall I tend to just dive right in and deal with it, because I want to get it over with.

I fear a wide variety of things, most of which have no pattern. For example: Paralysis, spiders, death, loss of senses, a wild chimp attacking me, heights. I think of the situations where I would have to deal with one or more of these fears and freak myself out a bit. Sometimes I'll forget about something I'm afraid of, let's use heights, and won't remember it until I'm in a position where I'm somewhere high, or watching a movie where someone is. (I don't know if I'm weird or not for all of this or not. )

I conquered two big fears of mine in my pre-teen years, the fear of the dark and the fear of closed shower curtains. (I'm not joking. I used to be scared someone was hiding inside of the tub waiting to get me, mostly due to horror movies. I guess it's my version of 'monster under the bed.')

I do one of two things, I make like Archaic Smile and just get through a situation as quickly as possible, or I avoid the crap out of it, and make up some lame excuse why I can't do it.

What are you afraid of?

That my children will not understand.... It is my fear for them, not necessarily a fear of my own... They will make it through, just like the rest of us...

Biggest fear you've conquored?

Dealing with others in uncomfortable situations...

How do you deal with fear?

No longer much of a problem...

Insomuch as one may answer to the hypothetical situation :

Which would I believe ? I would first check my mother's room to see that she was effectively the one who called afterwards, to tell me not to go. The resulting responses to the enigma would depend on this verification. As fear and prudence are close cousins, instinct is a very important element. Realise (and I shall back this up with an anecdote) that one does not think about instinct. That makes it very difficult to say precisely what one would do in a situation -- the Force gnows when to take over and it happens of itself.

In either case, I'm naturally not just going running anywhere in my pyjama and nothing else. In pyjama maybe, but with a stick in hand. And this, either a sharp metal one or a blunt wooden one of the same form -- it doesn't matter. Instinct will determine this too.

If my mother is in her room, I go prudently toward the kitchen, not really imagining beforehand what I may find there, letting my senses harvest as much information along the way as they may -- this happens of itself also.

If my mother is not in her room, this offers the present dilemma, what is going on with Mum in the kitchen drops to second place. Who is this who called to me from the bedroom ? That becomes the present odyssey to unravel. If one is to stay centred, Mum has to fend for herself ...

In the situation, it looks quite differently from the hypothetical construction. Instinct has an easier time taking over when intellectually one's fear would be overwhelming. It is natural. Fear keeps us from advancing toward dangers we can see coming. When we're in it, the instinct does it's job.


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