Today, as I was reading this novel I've been trying to finish this past week, thoughts about fear consume my mind (it's called FEAR OR FALLING and I would be posting a review soon!). I don't think it was also a coincidence that when I hit shuffle on my playlist, the first song that played was OneRepublic's Fear. And now, it seems even freakier that this all happened the same day I REALLY wanted to go watch The Conjuring. It made me ask myself what I am most afraid of. And I was surprised that I didn't know how to answer the question. It's simple really, that question.
What are you afraid of?
Most people would automatically say something about their phobias. It's one of the things we talked about for one of our classes. Irrational fears, thats what they are. First off, I'm still unconvinced about phobias being considered irrational. I mean, basically, people fear things because they have come to associate that particular thing to a previous unpleasant event and seeing, hearing, touching, or feeling that thing sort of triggers a memory, a knee-jerk reaction to recoil from unwanted memories attached to the object of their fears. What one person may fear may seem irrational to another person but that doesn't make their fears any less valid, don't you think?
This got me thinking, how exactly can we qualify fear? Is it just based on our body's reaction? Increased heart rate, shallow breathing, pallor, sweating... these are all physiological manifestations that a person may experience upon feeling fear. Do we really know what fear is?
That's why the first song I heard today became so much more significant:
When we were children we'd play
Out in the streets just dipped in fate
When we were children we'd say
That we don't the meaning of
Fear
(OneRepublic, Fear. From the album 'Waking Up')
What are you afraid of?
Most people would automatically say something about their phobias. It's one of the things we talked about for one of our classes. Irrational fears, thats what they are. First off, I'm still unconvinced about phobias being considered irrational. I mean, basically, people fear things because they have come to associate that particular thing to a previous unpleasant event and seeing, hearing, touching, or feeling that thing sort of triggers a memory, a knee-jerk reaction to recoil from unwanted memories attached to the object of their fears. What one person may fear may seem irrational to another person but that doesn't make their fears any less valid, don't you think?
This got me thinking, how exactly can we qualify fear? Is it just based on our body's reaction? Increased heart rate, shallow breathing, pallor, sweating... these are all physiological manifestations that a person may experience upon feeling fear. Do we really know what fear is?
That's why the first song I heard today became so much more significant:
When we were children we'd play
Out in the streets just dipped in fate
When we were children we'd say
That we don't the meaning of
Fear
(OneRepublic, Fear. From the album 'Waking Up')
