02-19-2007, 07:38 PM
Margo, DT, Sily, thanks for these lovely elaborations. This is one of the topics I think about a lot... so here's my little contribution.
Many authors claim that fear is the strongest human emotion... And I must aggree with that, based on my personal experience, and based on discussions with other people. Fear is always the first to emerge, especially in new situations. Sometimes it makes us careful, which is a kind of "natural" protection against harm, but in many cases it only limit our thoughts, actions and emotions. The latter case can be seen among people more and more often, and this may be one of the major reasons for the "baa-baa philosophy", as David Icke would say.
My worst fears... well, I mostly don't speak of my personal problems and things that bother me, so please forgive me if I'm not too specific here. That's also one of my fears, and I haven't even started dealing with it yet - fear of being too open to people, and giving some of them too much material to use against me when it suits them. Either against me, or just "conincidentally" hurt me in one way or another.
The other huge fear I have may be even described as fear from myself... from what I have been, from what I may become, and from some things from my past that may haunt me. I am aware of the fact that I have to face this, and I have settled all things from my past with the rest of the world. The only problem remains within me, because there are some things that I personally can't emotionally accept so easily. This is something I really have to deal with it, if I want to continue my life normally. If another similar event occurs, I will probably have to deal with it from scratch again, just as with any other. There's no rule or formula about it; I simply have to settle with issues from my past one by one, facing each one as a new problem, and dealing with it (in most cases) differently than any other.
I mentioned fear from what I may become... This partly relates to the fear from the past, which if I don't deal with will probably affect me in some way. The other part of this fear is every time I start working on something, there is a little anxiety - sometimes positive, sometimes negative - of what trace this will leave on me. What can I learn, what can I achieve, have I taken the right path...? This is, in a normal state of mind quite easy to deal with, but nevertheless.
Finally, what I would like to say, is a general opinion I have about fear and courage, which was told to me by my Latin professor in high school... It isn't a brave soul which hase no fear - that's a foolish one - but a soul which has it's fears and is able to overcome them. You have to be afraid first, in order to be brave.
Many authors claim that fear is the strongest human emotion... And I must aggree with that, based on my personal experience, and based on discussions with other people. Fear is always the first to emerge, especially in new situations. Sometimes it makes us careful, which is a kind of "natural" protection against harm, but in many cases it only limit our thoughts, actions and emotions. The latter case can be seen among people more and more often, and this may be one of the major reasons for the "baa-baa philosophy", as David Icke would say.
My worst fears... well, I mostly don't speak of my personal problems and things that bother me, so please forgive me if I'm not too specific here. That's also one of my fears, and I haven't even started dealing with it yet - fear of being too open to people, and giving some of them too much material to use against me when it suits them. Either against me, or just "conincidentally" hurt me in one way or another.
The other huge fear I have may be even described as fear from myself... from what I have been, from what I may become, and from some things from my past that may haunt me. I am aware of the fact that I have to face this, and I have settled all things from my past with the rest of the world. The only problem remains within me, because there are some things that I personally can't emotionally accept so easily. This is something I really have to deal with it, if I want to continue my life normally. If another similar event occurs, I will probably have to deal with it from scratch again, just as with any other. There's no rule or formula about it; I simply have to settle with issues from my past one by one, facing each one as a new problem, and dealing with it (in most cases) differently than any other.
I mentioned fear from what I may become... This partly relates to the fear from the past, which if I don't deal with will probably affect me in some way. The other part of this fear is every time I start working on something, there is a little anxiety - sometimes positive, sometimes negative - of what trace this will leave on me. What can I learn, what can I achieve, have I taken the right path...? This is, in a normal state of mind quite easy to deal with, but nevertheless.
Finally, what I would like to say, is a general opinion I have about fear and courage, which was told to me by my Latin professor in high school... It isn't a brave soul which hase no fear - that's a foolish one - but a soul which has it's fears and is able to overcome them. You have to be afraid first, in order to be brave.
