Essay About Fear

Throughout the course of our evolutionary timeline, we have had two major driving factors: fear and curiosity. These two aspects of the human psyche have, throughout all of time, been part of an intimate dance that has defined human progress. In order to seek reason and understanding of the world, we must have fear to justify this search. Likewise, in order to truly fear the world, we must know at least something of the horrors that lurk in it. Though these two forces hold a delicate balance in our mind, we can sometimes go off the edge. Whether it be those who suffer from anxiety and must constantly battle overwhelming fear or those who experience moments in which fear ascends any other facet of human nature, this fragile dance can be instantly shattered. Moments or times like these, where our understanding of the world no longer applies, gives our imagination the leverage it needs to bypass reason and corrupt our mind with a sense of paralyzing fear. Think back to a time when you were afraid. Not just a normal fear like that of a random bump in the night, but a moment in which you were struck with the fear of God himself. Whether it be a moment in which you stared death in the eyes or one in which another, darker, more sinister phantom crept into your mind; capture that thought. Let it again saturate

My brain simply had no method to deal with what I was going through, and, as result, presented zero reason to work off of. Rather, my mind defaulted to imagination, an action that resulted in the creation of a sense of fear that even now I sometimes go back to. With all fears, this is the case. Each of us will, often at many points in our lives, be presented with situations that truth, reasoning, and logic cannot handle. Instead, our imagination corrupts our psyche, bringing with it a sense of overwhelming