Fear is one of thoss emotions that you can hardly master no matter your level of experience. Although it gets better over time, when it comes to matters of survival, loss, or flight, this is how we can test our capacity to withstand fear. Fear of the unknown in the presence of suspected danger is one of the most delicate things to deal with. It's like having to deal with uncertainty while being blind.
As humans, seeking and having knowledge is one of the ways we overcome fear, this is because knowledge gives us the capacity to deal with things we may not even understand. In reality, everyone fears what they don't know. However, having the experience of facing unknown danger decreases the chances of fear. However, fear is never completely eradicated. Sometimes its negative downsides bring anxiety, worry, and living without freedom.
Nevertheless, fear doesn't come without its positives. Fear is a double-edged sword. There are times we act upon it and it saves us immensely and there are times we act on it and it just adds to the existing issue. We cannot completely deduce fear, however, it's important to know that it's the most erratic human emotion. It makes people vulnerable, dangerous, weak, and even unpredictable. Every human has an inclination, a breaking, and a selling point.
No matter how trained we are to withstand oppression. There's always something, that makes us vulnerable and weak. The human flesh is a strength and weakness. If not we're double-edged, we might become the most formidable force in our universe and even beyond. However, we have a Creator, who has designed us in the way we need to be. Our system of existence is a natural check to our excesses, and this is why there's always a limit to how far we can go when acting on our fear.
A lot of people will never get tested to understand their breaking point, and this is because life is fair to some and unfair to others. One of man's sentiments is being judgemental. However, what differentiates us is knowledge and level of experience. People who have more experience in life are less judgemental, especially when they have scars from their various experiences with life.
Sometimes we cannot predict our battles and this is why people who have survived so much in life are people who fear a lot. People who are reckless in life have had few life-defining moments and while it's better to be the former, life is more freeing when you're the latter. It's never a beautiful thing to face a lot. This is because fighting and winning always isn't always a hallmark of sustenance.
There are times we fight too much in life, the more we win, the more scared we become of what a potential loss might feel like. Fear is not only driven by failure. Sometimes it's driven by excessively winning. When people win too much in life, it gets to a point, where they become scared of any chance of a potential loss.
Fear is unpredictable, and even if you've never been in a position when fear is driven by life-defining moments, then it's difficult to truly understand what fear is, and how far it can control or incapacitate a person. At the end of the day, we can never outgrow fear, it's present in us, in every corner where we think we've mastered the art of bravery.
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