The word 'fear' is a very strong word, according to oxford dictionary it says " fear is an unpleasant emotion caused by the threat of danger, pain, or harm". is also a feeling of anxiety and agitation caused by the presence or nearness of danger, evil, pain. Fear has caused so many problems to millions of life's.
Fear always has negative impact psychologically, it alerts us to the presence of danger or the threat of harm, whether that danger is physical or psychological. Some people find it difficult to walk at night because of fear of danger, some even hate watching HORROR movies because of fear.
Fear is applicable to so many ways, e.g;
(1) Fear of failure: some people are afraid of failing, because they think ones they fail, there is no way to undo it.
(2)Fear of death : Everybody want to make heaven but nobody want to die, yes is very true, everybody is afraid of death. We can see when some people are Ill, when we ask them what they are thinking or what's on there mind they will tell us "I do t want to die".
(3) Fear of poverty: Many criminals we have today, they are really scared of poverty, they don't want to be poor so they engage themselves in criminal act.
(4) Fear of telling the truth: some people are scared of telling the truth at some point because of the punishment they are going to face afterwards.
All this are caused by fear, we can see FEAR has power. fear has destroy so many homes, town, city, county. Corruption in a country has to do with fear; politician who embezzled money he/she is afraid of going back to poverty which is why they engage in embezzlement.