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What makes us afraid

Have you ever had that awkward feeling when your hands are shaking,your legs are trembling,you are having a headache,your heart is racing,you feel like are going to pass out,well,that could be fear or maybe you are just having a high fever.

By NONYE AJIBEPublished 6 years ago 2 min read

Fear is like a door that tugs onto our cloth which prevents us to leave or pass through.It is always there like a voice in our head telling us things that am pretty sure are illusions. That's how powerful the human mind is,it can create and destroy. It can form scenarios,events,pictures that can be true or untrue.

A lot of us has gotten our fair share of fear because many of us are afraid of a lot of things. Some are afraid of people,some are afraid of animals, water or tight corners while some are afraid to put themselves out there. But everyday we question the reason why we are afraid, we look through books,we surf the web,we have mirror conversations,we watch Denzel Washington motivational videos, we read the bible just to find the solutions to our fears,sometimes we do find the solutions, sometimes we don't.

We are afraid because our mind is afraid.I said earlier that our mind is powerful and is able to create and destroy. When your mind has being designed in such away that you believe that something is bad for you or is gonna harm you,your mind starts to create illusions of so many things that can go wrong if we ever try. Our mind is a powerful tool that if not used appropriately can end up controlling us.

We are afraid because of people opinions. I have read several times where they say that the world is to busy to concentrate on you unless you are Kim Kardashian then the world or should I say the media got their eyes on you. We become fearful just thinking about what everyone is going to think if we are actually decide to do something different. But what we don't know is that people don't always care about these things. Everyone basically has their own life to live, their problems to sort out,what you are doing is totally the last thing on there mind.

We are afraid beacuse we are comfortable. Our place of comfort-ability is a place of less worries,basically repeating the same old routines because we don' t want to go through the uneasiness of trying out something new or doing something different. Our safe haven can be quite limiting sometimes, but fear most times never allows us to leave that place.

As much fear is limiting factor, it also be a motivating factor,it can also be that thing that pushes us to edge, coercing us to jump off, assuring us that are angels around to catch us, or it can be that thing that makes us to crawl back into our cave.

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