"Fear attracts the fearful" (Darth Maul)Everyone's afraid of something. Kids are afraid of the dark, afraid of the bogeyman, afarid of being lost in a shopping centre.
Women are afraid of "abandonment, isolation, loss of love"*
Men are afraid of "engulfment, anything that threatens to rob us of our power and control"*
Women are afraid of "abandonment, isolation, loss of love"*
Men are afraid of "engulfment, anything that threatens to rob us of our power and control"*
People fear incompetence, they fear singing in public, they fear being singled out and embaressed, they fear being brainwashed, they fear being targetted for marriage, they fear losing their security, they fear losing their independance.**
We fear growing old, we fear losing loved ones, we fear own own death and build picket fences around death in order to whitewash its true grim reality.
Our lives are plagued by fear. Our lives are lived out in fear.
Why are we so afraid? Is it the expectation of loss? Is it irrational or is it justified? How should we respond to our fears? Is fear always good? Is fear always bad? Can we become desensitised to our fears? Or will they always come back to haunt us?
Fear. Such a primitive response. The sympathetic nervous reaction to perceived threat. An adaptive evolutionary mechanism to ensure survival of the fittest?
We fear growing old, we fear losing loved ones, we fear own own death and build picket fences around death in order to whitewash its true grim reality.
Our lives are plagued by fear. Our lives are lived out in fear.
Why are we so afraid? Is it the expectation of loss? Is it irrational or is it justified? How should we respond to our fears? Is fear always good? Is fear always bad? Can we become desensitised to our fears? Or will they always come back to haunt us?
Fear. Such a primitive response. The sympathetic nervous reaction to perceived threat. An adaptive evolutionary mechanism to ensure survival of the fittest?
If we're honest with ourselves, beneath the layers of protection and barriers we put up, we all fear something.
What do you fear?
What do you fear?
* Fire in the Belly, On Being a Man. Sam Keen.
** Why Men hate Going to Church. David Murrow.
1 comment:
It depends on what it is you fear.
Fear of God, for example, of His judgement, is a good thing in a sense that it makes us want to please Him by living out godly lives. At the same time, "perfect love casts out fear".
Fear which paralyses us & stops us from doing things in life, & which affects our relationships with others is the bad kind. It takes faith & courage to overcome it.
I wish it can be done as easily as it is said.
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