fear—it’s in everyone, everywhere

Everybody, all around the world, has fear. It doesn’t matter how old or young, how strong or weak you are, you still have fear. There’s always something or someone you fear—either it’s a bully or an octopus, fear is in everyone in every form. So the question is, why do we have fear? Why are we all scared of something? Wouldn’t it be a better world if we aren’t frightened by others and things. Take a bully, for example. I’m sure that everyone is scared of a bully—the one that teases, insults, and makes fun of. But why are we scared of one kid (or adult)? A bully is just a word for someone who is mean. If we look closer to the bully, he/she is scared of us too, except they are good at hiding it. Fear gives us the emotions of anxiety and causes us to sweat so much that the 80% of the water in our body decrease to 0%. Fear makes us do foolish things that we shouldn’t do. We all react to fear differently. I don’t know how everyone else acts, but I know how I act and it’s definitely not something to be proud of at all. I should be able to face my fear and fight it. Tell it that I am NOT afraid of it and that I will fight it (figuratively speaking, of course) if I have to. But I cannot. Because the reason we have fear is because we are too scared to face up to it. And if you think about it, if we don’t have fears, where’s the fun in our life? If we didn’t have fear, we wouldn’t be growing, characteristically speaking. We all learn and grow from our fears (once you get over it I mean) so if we didn’t have fear, what would we learn and grow from? Besides, if we didn’t have fear, we wouldn’t learn from our foolishness and we wouldn’t grow stronger. Here is my list of top five fears:

1. Death
2. Animal Extinction
3. The fading of our atmosphere
4. Guns and Wars
5. ???

I haven’t decided my fear #5, but I am pretty sure it’s bugs. Bugs pretty much scare the soul out of me. They are so gross and creepy that I shudder whenever I see one crawling my way. All my fears are pretty much based up on our planet. I guess it’s because they all are part of my number 1 fear: death.